Pith Number

pith:ZI4JVKT3

pith:1999:ZI4JVKT3X27GM3P5J7SUCFHRZ2

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A formulation of the Yang-Mills theory as a deformation of a topological field theory based on background field method and quark confinement problem

Kei-Ichi Kondo (Chiba Univ.)

arxiv:hep-th/9904045 v2 · 1999-04-07 · hep-th · hep-lat · hep-ph

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\pithnumber{ZI4JVKT3X27GM3P5J7SUCFHRZ2}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:38:35.109036Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ca389aaa7bbebe666dfd4fe54114f1ceaf9635787333308eba161e595f6ea18c

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9904045 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9904045v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9904045 · pith_short_12: ZI4JVKT3X27G · pith_short_16: ZI4JVKT3X27GM3P5 · pith_short_8: ZI4JVKT3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZI4JVKT3X27GM3P5J7SUCFHRZ2 \
  | 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: ca389aaa7bbebe666dfd4fe54114f1ceaf9635787333308eba161e595f6ea18c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e918cc42128b1fc1f07389e8ccc3a3fbb00eae1a87c82d463f85aa03f4495c6b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-lat",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-04-07T08:21:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "57b19ca012e13bb74a709486287b276082fef78803b93ae9637aa4c9a7066988"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9904045",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}