Pith Number

pith:YK2QO73Y

pith:1999:YK2QO73YFHZDBP55NSDL7YUU6P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

What we do understand of Colour Confinement

A. Di Giacomo

arxiv:hep-lat/9907010 v1 · 1999-07-19 · hep-lat

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YK2QO73YFHZDBP55NSDL7YUU6P}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:39:12.985125Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2b5077f7829f230bfbd6c86bfe294f3c00f098eab7e6b12a77e72a5c5620d63

Aliases

arxiv: hep-lat/9907010 · arxiv_version: hep-lat/9907010v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/9907010 · pith_short_12: YK2QO73YFHZD · pith_short_16: YK2QO73YFHZDBP55 · pith_short_8: YK2QO73Y

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/YK2QO73YFHZDBP55NSDL7YUU6P \
  | 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: c2b5077f7829f230bfbd6c86bfe294f3c00f098eab7e6b12a77e72a5c5620d63

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dff3bc6506d6511172631231cf09632502029ca7ee001b451ac375282f292568",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-lat",
    "submitted_at": "1999-07-19T12:07:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e4d503ae703326118aa2999c11cc0e5fc62b8e1c206bf4b73cfb409afba84c0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-lat/9907010",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}