Pith Number

pith:VDRRVKOU

pith:2022:VDRRVKOUBXQIQHRZFDDXO3LJEE

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Fractional Vortices, $\mathbb{Z}_2$ Gauge Theory, and the Confinement-Deconfinement Transition

Dung-Hai Lee, Yen-Ta Huang, Zhi-Qiang Gao

arxiv:2204.12482 v2 · 2022-04-26 · cond-mat.str-el · cond-mat.mes-hall · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\pithnumber{VDRRVKOUBXQIQHRZFDDXO3LJEE}

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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	2026-07-05T04:57:25.151673Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8e31aa9d40de0881e3928c7776d6921222ac2ff561d5558994d425419cd9a2f

Aliases

arxiv: 2204.12482 · arxiv_version: 2204.12482v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2204.12482 · pith_short_12: VDRRVKOUBXQI · pith_short_16: VDRRVKOUBXQIQHRZ · pith_short_8: VDRRVKOU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VDRRVKOUBXQIQHRZFDDXO3LJEE \
  | 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: a8e31aa9d40de0881e3928c7776d6921222ac2ff561d5558994d425419cd9a2f

Canonical record JSON

{
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.mes-hall",
      "cond-mat.stat-mech"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.str-el",
    "submitted_at": "2022-04-26T17:53:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e128502906d256ffca0c9ef54fcd2cc9e7cecef8374d031df0133dbe7604dd2e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2204.12482",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}