Pith Number

pith:XAVGD4N2

pith:1999:XAVGD4N2EJJEFW7JH7HQHFLJTM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

String Nature of Confinement in (Non-)Abelian Gauge Theories

Dmitri Antonov (INFN, Pisa)

arxiv:hep-th/9909209 v2 · 1999-09-29 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XAVGD4N2EJJEFW7JH7HQHFLJTM}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:34.868297Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b82a61f1ba225242dbe93fcf0395699b33bae9f01edd2e0d18ba29279dec6096

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9909209 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9909209v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9909209 · pith_short_12: XAVGD4N2EJJE · pith_short_16: XAVGD4N2EJJEFW7J · pith_short_8: XAVGD4N2

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/XAVGD4N2EJJEFW7JH7HQHFLJTM \
  | 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: b82a61f1ba225242dbe93fcf0395699b33bae9f01edd2e0d18ba29279dec6096

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "513510d26ad66d78d1319f37a22b11a27933d1ff3e623b6b3470e68243987f45",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-09-29T09:56:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2ccc76a6405ff3a18eaed8a8bc6d1af1cef5f604d766f2f7ebcc4c6473b91874"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9909209",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}