Pith Number

pith:MXSQZJXD

pith:1999:MXSQZJXDRBQAKYBR73BVV2QHZI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bound on the string tension by the excitation probability for a vortex

E.T. Tomboulis (UCLA), T.G. Kov\'acs (U. of Leiden)

arxiv:hep-lat/9908031 v1 · 1999-08-21 · hep-lat

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MXSQZJXDRBQAKYBR73BVV2QHZI}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:39:11.467608Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

65e50ca6e38860056031fec35aea07ca0367ad7687c8339cea9b2ef2621390f6

Aliases

arxiv: hep-lat/9908031 · arxiv_version: hep-lat/9908031v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/9908031 · pith_short_12: MXSQZJXDRBQA · pith_short_16: MXSQZJXDRBQAKYBR · pith_short_8: MXSQZJXD

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/MXSQZJXDRBQAKYBR73BVV2QHZI \
  | 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: 65e50ca6e38860056031fec35aea07ca0367ad7687c8339cea9b2ef2621390f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4532139fbc5c40fab24360571d24feaa5b37fea5042d2070c84cd9912a47b886",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-lat",
    "submitted_at": "1999-08-21T00:16:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a5ee3cfea3065c4be9fabda71cc2bf0d095a78bf1279b85ee1bb45c7435ed286"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-lat/9908031",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}