Pith Number

pith:VRCAVGEP

pith:1995:VRCAVGEPW544D4WEMNNMR2UCKW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Large-N Universality of the Two-Dimensional Yang-Mills String

H. J. Schnitzer, M. Crescimanno, S. Naculich

arxiv:hep-th/9503020 v1 · 1995-03-03 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VRCAVGEPW544D4WEMNNMR2UCKW}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:06:02.803064Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac440a988fb779c1f2c4635ac8ea8255a5c370d286e1a2971f2bcdc596a3b10d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9503020 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9503020v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9503020 · pith_short_12: VRCAVGEPW544 · pith_short_16: VRCAVGEPW544D4WE · pith_short_8: VRCAVGEP

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/VRCAVGEPW544D4WEMNNMR2UCKW \
  | 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: ac440a988fb779c1f2c4635ac8ea8255a5c370d286e1a2971f2bcdc596a3b10d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6af803fd1f813d64131f51800922ac932244a8e64e61686e6d64f501bfae8b5c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1995-03-03T16:47:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9cec22f0717385d22b3d492066f68b913f8f0952a21c0198c7c3252493827364"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9503020",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}