Pith Number

pith:WMGLRLTO

pith:1997:WMGLRLTO7GQ4PQ7INX6JPXKVQS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Confinement and Strings in MQCD

Alberto Zaffaroni, Amihay Hanany, Matthew J. Strassler

arxiv:hep-th/9707244 v1 · 1997-07-30 · hep-th · hep-lat · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WMGLRLTO7GQ4PQ7INX6JPXKVQS}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:36:02.256074Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b30cb8ae6ef9a1c7c3e86dfc97dd5584b77bb2c75067b2e623ead61ceaf6827e

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9707244 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9707244v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9707244 · pith_short_12: WMGLRLTO7GQ4 · pith_short_16: WMGLRLTO7GQ4PQ7I · pith_short_8: WMGLRLTO

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/WMGLRLTO7GQ4PQ7INX6JPXKVQS \
  | 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: b30cb8ae6ef9a1c7c3e86dfc97dd5584b77bb2c75067b2e623ead61ceaf6827e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3ab166af4a2d1bbe9ff013dca4e5ea808445af74884b0248dcba0f822eaf909c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-lat",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-07-30T01:36:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "297bc26a51e2621d89a11894e3ed546394e1a07e3859baab20a254d0b99bb953"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9707244",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}