Pith Number

pith:XS2JW2JP

pith:2007:XS2JW2JP2ZB4YWQYXENWLKWG3N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Colour, copies and confinement

Anton Ilderton, David McMullan, Martin Lavelle

arxiv:hep-th/0701168 v2 · 2007-01-18 · hep-th · hep-lat · hep-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XS2JW2JP2ZB4YWQYXENWLKWG3N}

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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	2026-05-18T04:38:25.155654Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bcb49b692fd643cc5a18b91b65aac6db699e4240345d4ca352b5ae7e32cc5e63

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0701168 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0701168v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0701168 · pith_short_12: XS2JW2JP2ZB4 · pith_short_16: XS2JW2JP2ZB4YWQY · pith_short_8: XS2JW2JP

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/XS2JW2JP2ZB4YWQYXENWLKWG3N \
  | 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: bcb49b692fd643cc5a18b91b65aac6db699e4240345d4ca352b5ae7e32cc5e63

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5f5a9af4a804de1b5c3f4f44e4ddfea6ef6ff8e7009813746580c0e4f50067b3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-lat",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2007-01-18T14:38:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3c7fc93f6dd3a169b34e003489b76d8ef574c7a3888c655252fa364edb749918"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0701168",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}