Pith Number

pith:GCB3FZM6

pith:2016:GCB3FZM626TRJE3VQGUGRMJHMB

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Scientific Biography of Stanley Mandelstam, Part I: 1955-1980

Charles B. Thorn

arxiv:1612.01590 v1 · 2016-12-05 · hep-th · hep-ph · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GCB3FZM626TRJE3VQGUGRMJHMB}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:56.625779Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3083b2e59ed7a714937581a868b12760702aa62d23ebe1f2bc5e826d15b82c35

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.01590 · arxiv_version: 1612.01590v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.01590 · pith_short_12: GCB3FZM626TR · pith_short_16: GCB3FZM626TRJE3V · pith_short_8: GCB3FZM6

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/GCB3FZM626TRJE3VQGUGRMJHMB \
  | 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: 3083b2e59ed7a714937581a868b12760702aa62d23ebe1f2bc5e826d15b82c35

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "417f0560f5539f6db69171ed4d254e32b3b0f2f3b69a3bd417ee5543a7834e04",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph",
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-05T23:31:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a23d7d87d35ecf131fec110077836bf8aadb96216e5bea685750f19525a458b4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.01590",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}