Pith Number

pith:RVWSHPK2

pith:1999:RVWSHPK232RMFGMTTZVG74JAHI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Asymptotic freedom and Confinement imply spontaneously broken chiral symmetry in Quantum Chromodynamics

P. Narayana Swamy, R. Acharya

arxiv:hep-th/9910009 v1 · 1999-10-01 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RVWSHPK232RMFGMTTZVG74JAHI}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T02:35:54.161456Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d6d23bd5adea2c299939e6a6ff1203a3a8684f1de45feb4c10d266c64a6f7e8

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9910009 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9910009v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9910009 · pith_short_12: RVWSHPK232RM · pith_short_16: RVWSHPK232RMFGMT · pith_short_8: RVWSHPK2

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/RVWSHPK232RMFGMTTZVG74JAHI \
  | 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: 8d6d23bd5adea2c299939e6a6ff1203a3a8684f1de45feb4c10d266c64a6f7e8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "12cc321b90f7a70b41325aea2dfea69156f3865d7d1741f7c31f9d3d10c9db79",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-10-01T16:16:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b8ae9c430ccc82a54f176fa2e765fe32484ed94368c4944ad32c90239ead5f1e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9910009",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}