Pith Number

pith:Y3QEXO2B

pith:2007:Y3QEXO2BHKIKX4CYBO4F2TQTFA

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The Early Years of String Theory: A Personal Perspective

John H. Schwarz

arxiv:0708.1917 v3 · 2007-08-14 · hep-th · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y3QEXO2BHKIKX4CYBO4F2TQTFA}

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4 Citations 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.

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Towards a complete description of multiple D$p$-brane systems: Multiple D$0$ Story

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:40:32.552433Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c6e04bbb413a90abf0580bb85d4e132823826292285452b329373d67e4507ae7

Aliases

arxiv: 0708.1917 · arxiv_version: 0708.1917v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0708.1917 · pith_short_12: Y3QEXO2BHKIK · pith_short_16: Y3QEXO2BHKIKX4CY · pith_short_8: Y3QEXO2B

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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/Y3QEXO2BHKIKX4CYBO4F2TQTFA \
  | 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: c6e04bbb413a90abf0580bb85d4e132823826292285452b329373d67e4507ae7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e80e13cb300c9aac29f1b68cc456ccb34fbf89787da1e72d9b6df48261240a28",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2007-08-14T15:41:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "52cdda3ed8ad238dafe8cf5a421759835aa637300805aeb600a2ef819585c31d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0708.1917",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}