Pith Number

pith:XOHZOD4T

pith:2004:XOHZOD4TYR2PT2H6BAB3VVNFXB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Confinement at Large Nc

Gerard 't Hooft

arxiv:hep-th/0408183 v1 · 2004-08-24 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XOHZOD4TYR2PT2H6BAB3VVNFXB}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:37:08.190597Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bb8f970f93c474f9e8fe0803bad5a5b866b0d616a43195a78999924c19e802bd

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0408183 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0408183v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0408183 · pith_short_12: XOHZOD4TYR2P · pith_short_16: XOHZOD4TYR2PT2H6 · pith_short_8: XOHZOD4T

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/XOHZOD4TYR2PT2H6BAB3VVNFXB \
  | 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: bb8f970f93c474f9e8fe0803bad5a5b866b0d616a43195a78999924c19e802bd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "23acd3678b0cf203b72e31e1f1fab34fe87c74317b648695f4d49257491e04a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2004-08-24T08:11:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0cce29dcbda6dd970600d7c0dadcc41e494667fddc666f9f4a214887526901d7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0408183",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}