Pith Number

pith:MVB7R4N5

pith:2017:MVB7R4N56IOWNTKBK64C4EOX63

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The Guiding Influence of Stanley Mandelstam, from S-Matrix Theory to String Theory

Peter Goddard

arxiv:1702.05986 v1 · 2017-02-20 · physics.hist-ph · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MVB7R4N56IOWNTKBK64C4EOX63}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:54.400732Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6543f8f1bdf21d66cd4157b82e11d7f6d7989ec0a2bef84311c154eda0bf4675

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.05986 · arxiv_version: 1702.05986v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.05986 · pith_short_12: MVB7R4N56IOW · pith_short_16: MVB7R4N56IOWNTKB · pith_short_8: MVB7R4N5

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MVB7R4N56IOWNTKBK64C4EOX63 \
  | 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: 6543f8f1bdf21d66cd4157b82e11d7f6d7989ec0a2bef84311c154eda0bf4675

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "64ce95d607ea9e487901459c7940b50ba5dc756536e83d3167000830c5fd276b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-20T14:38:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4d3d579c10db306cf44f1b527b614d591f63d63db7cc96207344440df305289f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.05986",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}