Pith Number

pith:TFR2WGWJ

pith:2016:TFR2WGWJMOZR4JYE4YE36LRPEY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gauge-independent Higgs mechanism and the implications for quark confinement

Kei-Ichi Kondo

arxiv:1612.05933 v1 · 2016-12-18 · hep-th · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TFR2WGWJMOZR4JYE4YE36LRPEY}

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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	2026-05-18T00:47:05.349781Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9963ab1ac963b31e2704e609bf2e2f260d1d5299c529905c053605b538d68d2c

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.05933 · arxiv_version: 1612.05933v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.05933 · pith_short_12: TFR2WGWJMOZR · pith_short_16: TFR2WGWJMOZR4JYE · pith_short_8: TFR2WGWJ

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/TFR2WGWJMOZR4JYE4YE36LRPEY \
  | 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: 9963ab1ac963b31e2704e609bf2e2f260d1d5299c529905c053605b538d68d2c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "59cf2b6d99f4fd7c8db69658461c9e4229692f8e2d64ffeef41d533c3233e85b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-18T15:34:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85873610225548d3e4bd751d1f9c24b170aeeb4d8671af916c6e0866e0d5801b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.05933",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}