Pith Number

pith:VB462OQ7

pith:2002:VB462OQ7SFEUWM7H356OACWICV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Perturbative Confinement

Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht)

arxiv:hep-th/0207179 v1 · 2002-07-19 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VB462OQ7SFEUWM7H356OACWICV}

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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	2026-07-04T16:34:50.328760Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a879ed3a1f91494b33e7df7ce00ac8157520f8235f6dae068594f2302e7e1f2d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0207179 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0207179v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0207179 · pith_short_12: VB462OQ7SFEU · pith_short_16: VB462OQ7SFEUWM7H · pith_short_8: VB462OQ7

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/VB462OQ7SFEUWM7H356OACWICV \
  | 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: a879ed3a1f91494b33e7df7ce00ac8157520f8235f6dae068594f2302e7e1f2d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e3d5042fb0dee0316ef68edce6d02925e498fd93c917a87009abb3ad7653e9a1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-07-19T13:29:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5a5a99e233cb8e05f40b22ba2741eaada4fdf0bbf9d1e73c769b1a6bcf700557"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0207179",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}