Pith Number

pith:SVGGEGG5

pith:1999:SVGGEGG5AIK2X65LEX3TPXBIWK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Centre vortices and their friends

P.W. Stephenson

arxiv:hep-lat/9909022 v1 · 1999-09-03 · hep-lat

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SVGGEGG5AIK2X65LEX3TPXBIWK}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:39:11.206212Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

954c6218dd0215abfbab25f737dc28b2b899ea1fea9ec1c86064a00b9a347a4c

Aliases

arxiv: hep-lat/9909022 · arxiv_version: hep-lat/9909022v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/9909022 · pith_short_12: SVGGEGG5AIK2 · pith_short_16: SVGGEGG5AIK2X65L · pith_short_8: SVGGEGG5

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/SVGGEGG5AIK2X65LEX3TPXBIWK \
  | 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: 954c6218dd0215abfbab25f737dc28b2b899ea1fea9ec1c86064a00b9a347a4c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0dc0f1b98584685965735def87cc8216be89213ca615aa6f6f8232bd4079eab2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-lat",
    "submitted_at": "1999-09-03T12:52:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "573171509dfafd6579c94e8409f0b8450f10e95f60a798c5d26eac623df7cb54"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-lat/9909022",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}