Pith Number

pith:VHX4T4VW

pith:2016:VHX4T4VWTCAHL5LKCAFYPIR7OV

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Quark Confinement, New Cosmic Expansion and General Yang-Mills Symmetry

Jong-Ping Hsu

arxiv:1609.00227 v2 · 2016-08-24 · physics.gen-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VHX4T4VWTCAHL5LKCAFYPIR7OV}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:21:41.396697Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9efc9f2b6988075f56a100b87a23f756183212a3ae426fc821bea41d3747064

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.00227 · arxiv_version: 1609.00227v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.00227 · pith_short_12: VHX4T4VWTCAH · pith_short_16: VHX4T4VWTCAHL5LK · pith_short_8: VHX4T4VW

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/VHX4T4VWTCAHL5LKCAFYPIR7OV \
  | 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: a9efc9f2b6988075f56a100b87a23f756183212a3ae426fc821bea41d3747064

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "013e2d28f86263dc2a9d56bcf9994d889e2636ed1173892f04d5f49c2fd48d1b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-24T17:32:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b0473381c6bae1d62d68b3924b178281c90d4ff83bd1439354a46b0f35959802"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.00227",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}