Pith Number

pith:UW6LVMVO

pith:1997:UW6LVMVO2HCHQ6OB2WMUOJHRRM

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String Theory and Quark Confinement

A. Polyakov

arxiv:hep-th/9711002 v1 · 1997-11-01 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UW6LVMVO2HCHQ6OB2WMUOJHRRM}

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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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:05:45.945303Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a5bcbab2aed1c47879c1d5994724f18b3d34bd880ef29933bdd840d9322d069d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9711002 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9711002v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9711002 · pith_short_12: UW6LVMVO2HCH · pith_short_16: UW6LVMVO2HCHQ6OB · pith_short_8: UW6LVMVO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UW6LVMVO2HCHQ6OB2WMUOJHRRM \
  | 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: a5bcbab2aed1c47879c1d5994724f18b3d34bd880ef29933bdd840d9322d069d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2352ffe6998f900bd2b7b8a623cd8a8b9e29e34efb39717851c91e6809c3284d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-11-01T22:45:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "549c0da60b0fa643cbdb8d9b63d4ddce5d13ac2bd19151348036b1c3455c149c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9711002",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}