Pith Number

pith:MTNB3VUT

pith:1999:MTNB3VUT6D7E7UYMBDEVQDRP2G

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An Alternative Model of Quark Confinement

Charles Francis

arxiv:physics/9909055 v1 · 1999-09-28 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MTNB3VUT6D7E7UYMBDEVQDRP2G}

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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	2026-07-04T14:45:03.881080Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

64da1dd693f0fe4fd30c08c9580e2fd1bded277e38dcd3a9b3c7e17959626dca

Aliases

arxiv: physics/9909055 · arxiv_version: physics/9909055v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/9909055 · pith_short_12: MTNB3VUT6D7E · pith_short_16: MTNB3VUT6D7E7UYM · pith_short_8: MTNB3VUT

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/MTNB3VUT6D7E7UYMBDEVQDRP2G \
  | 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: 64da1dd693f0fe4fd30c08c9580e2fd1bded277e38dcd3a9b3c7e17959626dca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "571de3f49c848a55a73aff4db28bbb083631b116bc79e6f89cf8776d6bea454b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-09-28T10:43:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6470ec81f8b376d0999eb168bda028c7ac822de91d0973090e84dfa26efec4c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/9909055",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}