Pith Number

pith:ZBAZUNRI

pith:1999:ZBAZUNRIXRVGS5HKOQAGHF6CKI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Center Vortices, Instantons, and Confinement

F. Lenz, J.W. Negele, M. Thiele, O. Jahn

arxiv:hep-lat/9909062 v1 · 1999-09-08 · hep-lat

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZBAZUNRIXRVGS5HKOQAGHF6CKI}

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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	2026-05-18T01:39:10.961369Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c8419a3628bc6a6974ea74006397c2520bc267de71c94c689213a251e402fca3

Aliases

arxiv: hep-lat/9909062 · arxiv_version: hep-lat/9909062v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/9909062 · pith_short_12: ZBAZUNRIXRVG · pith_short_16: ZBAZUNRIXRVGS5HK · pith_short_8: ZBAZUNRI

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/ZBAZUNRIXRVGS5HKOQAGHF6CKI \
  | 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: c8419a3628bc6a6974ea74006397c2520bc267de71c94c689213a251e402fca3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6ce51804dc8e1d9ae0b074e9dc936dbb13168d1297aec0169c8218b4e517c09b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-lat",
    "submitted_at": "1999-09-08T22:32:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f7b6a0bc6f7ca71c835809a93f4ebd7a88b9ce85d25d82c34bd83499d1322ff5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-lat/9909062",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}