Pith Number

pith:VP6SMQBW

pith:2015:VP6SMQBWU2LZNO5YWIZOF3ARIV

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Magnetic monopole versus vortex as gauge-invariant topological objects for quark confinement

Akihiro Shibata, Kei-Ichi Kondo, Seikou Kato, Takaaki Sasago, Toru Shinohara

arxiv:1508.01868 v1 · 2015-08-08 · hep-th

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\pithnumber{VP6SMQBWU2LZNO5YWIZOF3ARIV}

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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	2026-05-18T01:35:37.708659Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abfd264036a69796bbb8b232e2ec11456c20be0123cda851bd2ab1c0df0c130b

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.01868 · arxiv_version: 1508.01868v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.01868 · pith_short_12: VP6SMQBWU2LZ · pith_short_16: VP6SMQBWU2LZNO5Y · pith_short_8: VP6SMQBW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VP6SMQBWU2LZNO5YWIZOF3ARIV \
  | 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: abfd264036a69796bbb8b232e2ec11456c20be0123cda851bd2ab1c0df0c130b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aece47e52a7529ab34c497e5d7df36a3af1ccb33fc6e90b365bf2ecc2a8fc0f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-08T08:24:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "54722101a56aaaed780b0bdec4518d09da1a8eb3cdf59d908d6d1d88dbab4082"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.01868",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}