Pith Number

pith:QP4S5P23

pith:1999:QP4S5P232HQPR7T64GEB724BMS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Center Vortices, Nexuses, and Fractional Topological Charge

John M. Cornwall

arxiv:hep-th/9911125 v1 · 1999-11-16 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QP4S5P232HQPR7T64GEB724BMS}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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1 paper in Pith

Monopoles, Center Vortices, Confinement in (3+1)d, and the Lens-Space Twisted Partition Function

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:15:02.088446Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

83f92ebf5bd1e0f8fe7ee1881feb81648c8ea078d3d2baf6650a758eb9341190

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9911125 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9911125v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9911125 · pith_short_12: QP4S5P232HQP · pith_short_16: QP4S5P232HQPR7T6 · pith_short_8: QP4S5P23

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QP4S5P232HQPR7T64GEB724BMS \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 83f92ebf5bd1e0f8fe7ee1881feb81648c8ea078d3d2baf6650a758eb9341190

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c0c667e6e872b5a65f00f533a80aa4d17c46d0775d7d1d7d5873f2da0c711994",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-11-16T21:45:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "86385758ea82a5cc52840e435348973f8eb32ab1775ef4f6ddb457c3cdf806aa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9911125",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}