Pith Number

pith:Y6PWKDJU

pith:2012:Y6PWKDJUBZS7M7MRHESGFJPQU5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fractional electric charge and quark confinement

Andr\'e Sternbeck, Lorenz von Smekal, Sam R. Edwards

arxiv:1202.1477 v1 · 2012-02-07 · hep-lat

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y6PWKDJUBZS7M7MRHESGFJPQU5}

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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	2026-05-18T04:02:53.281402Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c79f650d340e65f67d91392462a5f0a752f03443961cea7066fb5f1196916d48

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.1477 · arxiv_version: 1202.1477v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.1477 · pith_short_12: Y6PWKDJUBZS7 · pith_short_16: Y6PWKDJUBZS7M7MR · pith_short_8: Y6PWKDJU

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/Y6PWKDJUBZS7M7MRHESGFJPQU5 \
  | 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: c79f650d340e65f67d91392462a5f0a752f03443961cea7066fb5f1196916d48

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4ea3fb2ab8e5d0b0f5e91180e91d0b2930d1d7250a027c00357c4bf13570dc51",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-lat",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-07T17:54:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1169d8f44b6d7f32e25541313925e97e03373332efd9b52e46ba3c8466f8046c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.1477",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}