Pith Number

pith:VQPGNEYH

pith:1999:VQPGNEYHI7OJTYDPA6GLN5B6TH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Confining String from the Soft Dilaton Theorem

Cesar Gomez, Enrique Alvarez

arxiv:hep-th/9907158 v3 · 1999-07-19 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VQPGNEYHI7OJTYDPA6GLN5B6TH}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:34.953015Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac1e66930747dc99e06f078cb6f43e99da35b17fdd04960e13616ce6d36b025c

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9907158 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9907158v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9907158 · pith_short_12: VQPGNEYHI7OJ · pith_short_16: VQPGNEYHI7OJTYDP · pith_short_8: VQPGNEYH

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/VQPGNEYHI7OJTYDPA6GLN5B6TH \
  | 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: ac1e66930747dc99e06f078cb6f43e99da35b17fdd04960e13616ce6d36b025c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "95c605adcb8a4a63cbc1cf4da1a2cd2a9f2194c642f2b5237c1ac81096f8f99b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-07-19T13:20:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "44aafd42279ad0e39a46393ae8559a3d8e57f314acb252be326f06e0321fcab3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9907158",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}