{"record_type":"pith_number_record","schema_url":"https://pith.science/schemas/pith-number/v1.json","pith_number":"pith:1994:QWCJIB4R5Z4ZLZXGX62IUZHPAI","short_pith_number":"pith:QWCJIB4R","schema_version":"1.0","canonical_sha256":"8584940791ee7995e6e6bfb48a64ef0222cee3312727d1f70ce1e62745db60e7","source":{"kind":"arxiv","id":"hep-th/9409109","version":3},"attestation_state":"computed","paper":{"title":"Confining Flux Tubes in a Current Algebra Approach","license":"","headline":"","cross_cats":["hep-ph"],"primary_cat":"hep-th","authors_text":"K.M. Benson, M. Saadi","submitted_at":"1994-09-19T21:01:42Z","abstract_excerpt":"We describe flux tubes and their interactions in a low energy sigma model induced by $SU({N_f}) \\rightarrow SO({N_f})$ flavor symmetry breaking in $SO(N_c)$ QCD. Unlike standard QCD, this model allows gauge confinement to manifest itself in the low energy theory, which has unscreened spinor color sources and global $Z_2$ flux tubes. We construct the flux tubes and show how they mediate the confinement of spinor sources. We further examine the flux tubes' quantum stability, spectrum and interactions. We find that flux tubes are Alice strings, despite ambiguities in defining parallel transport. "},"verification_status":{"content_addressed":true,"pith_receipt":true,"author_attested":false,"weak_author_claims":0,"strong_author_claims":0,"externally_anchored":false,"storage_verified":false,"citation_signatures":0,"replication_records":0,"graph_snapshot":true,"references_resolved":false,"formal_links_present":false},"canonical_record":{"source":{"id":"hep-th/9409109","kind":"arxiv","version":3},"metadata":{"license":"","primary_cat":"hep-th","submitted_at":"1994-09-19T21:01:42Z","cross_cats_sorted":["hep-ph"],"title_canon_sha256":"d6f6b0434caf80e443b94934820725d1600259b01cd86d3a6db9203992076ba6","abstract_canon_sha256":"54e8d476c49033e70bc7dc4f7d53c1c2f569817bb5d620b583d8c1a8b5c2ffa9"},"schema_version":"1.0"},"receipt":{"kind":"pith_receipt","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","algorithm":"ed25519","signed_at":"2026-05-18T04:37:34.852733Z","signature_b64":"XFYabIRLbWz91QhI5X1CxPl14lHE1ZpqYGJDQdC7ACAtH91jHt8PNWxcEP9ITOTFBEb+NhsC9vrULOEXQ4/aCA==","signed_message":"canonical_sha256_bytes","builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","receipt_version":"0.3","canonical_sha256":"8584940791ee7995e6e6bfb48a64ef0222cee3312727d1f70ce1e62745db60e7","last_reissued_at":"2026-05-18T04:37:34.852093Z","signature_status":"signed_v1","first_computed_at":"2026-05-18T04:37:34.852093Z","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54"},"graph_snapshot":{"paper":{"title":"Confining Flux Tubes in a Current Algebra Approach","license":"","headline":"","cross_cats":["hep-ph"],"primary_cat":"hep-th","authors_text":"K.M. Benson, M. Saadi","submitted_at":"1994-09-19T21:01:42Z","abstract_excerpt":"We describe flux tubes and their interactions in a low energy sigma model induced by $SU({N_f}) \\rightarrow SO({N_f})$ flavor symmetry breaking in $SO(N_c)$ QCD. Unlike standard QCD, this model allows gauge confinement to manifest itself in the low energy theory, which has unscreened spinor color sources and global $Z_2$ flux tubes. We construct the flux tubes and show how they mediate the confinement of spinor sources. We further examine the flux tubes' quantum stability, spectrum and interactions. We find that flux tubes are Alice strings, despite ambiguities in defining parallel transport. "},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"hep-th/9409109","kind":"arxiv","version":3},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"},"aliases":[{"alias_kind":"arxiv","alias_value":"hep-th/9409109","created_at":"2026-05-18T04:37:34.852205+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"arxiv_version","alias_value":"hep-th/9409109v3","created_at":"2026-05-18T04:37:34.852205+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"doi","alias_value":"10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9409109","created_at":"2026-05-18T04:37:34.852205+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_12","alias_value":"QWCJIB4R5Z4Z","created_at":"2026-05-18T12:25:47.102015+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_16","alias_value":"QWCJIB4R5Z4ZLZXG","created_at":"2026-05-18T12:25:47.102015+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_8","alias_value":"QWCJIB4R","created_at":"2026-05-18T12:25:47.102015+00:00"}],"events":[],"event_summary":{},"paper_claims":[],"inbound_citations":{"count":0,"internal_anchor_count":0,"sample":[]},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"sample":[],"anchors":[]},"links":{"html":"https://pith.science/pith/QWCJIB4R5Z4ZLZXGX62IUZHPAI","json":"https://pith.science/pith/QWCJIB4R5Z4ZLZXGX62IUZHPAI.json","graph_json":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/QWCJIB4R5Z4ZLZXGX62IUZHPAI/graph.json","events_json":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/QWCJIB4R5Z4ZLZXGX62IUZHPAI/events.json","paper":"https://pith.science/paper/QWCJIB4R"},"agent_actions":{"view_html":"https://pith.science/pith/QWCJIB4R5Z4ZLZXGX62IUZHPAI","download_json":"https://pith.science/pith/QWCJIB4R5Z4ZLZXGX62IUZHPAI.json","view_paper":"https://pith.science/paper/QWCJIB4R","resolve_alias":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/resolve?arxiv=hep-th/9409109&json=true","fetch_graph":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/QWCJIB4R5Z4ZLZXGX62IUZHPAI/graph.json","fetch_events":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/QWCJIB4R5Z4ZLZXGX62IUZHPAI/events.json","actions":{"anchor_timestamp":"https://pith.science/pith/QWCJIB4R5Z4ZLZXGX62IUZHPAI/action/timestamp_anchor","attest_storage":"https://pith.science/pith/QWCJIB4R5Z4ZLZXGX62IUZHPAI/action/storage_attestation","attest_author":"https://pith.science/pith/QWCJIB4R5Z4ZLZXGX62IUZHPAI/action/author_attestation","sign_citation":"https://pith.science/pith/QWCJIB4R5Z4ZLZXGX62IUZHPAI/action/citation_signature","submit_replication":"https://pith.science/pith/QWCJIB4R5Z4ZLZXGX62IUZHPAI/action/replication_record"}},"created_at":"2026-05-18T04:37:34.852205+00:00","updated_at":"2026-05-18T04:37:34.852205+00:00"}