Pith Number

pith:H3BYZE53

pith:2010:H3BYZE53REIHDTZL2DEYOFLCBG

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Quaternions In Three Dimensions

Bob Palais

arxiv:1011.6279 v1 · 2010-11-29 · math.RA · math.HO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H3BYZE53REIHDTZL2DEYOFLCBG}

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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	2026-05-18T04:33:37.148095Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3ec38c93bb891071cf2bd0c987156209898eacb67cf8d1575273fb52a36d90da

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.6279 · arxiv_version: 1011.6279v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.6279 · pith_short_12: H3BYZE53REIH · pith_short_16: H3BYZE53REIHDTZL · pith_short_8: H3BYZE53

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/H3BYZE53REIHDTZL2DEYOFLCBG \
  | 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: 3ec38c93bb891071cf2bd0c987156209898eacb67cf8d1575273fb52a36d90da

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "951d2b7c79cd22b65986176474c537f5456c55dd5c80fd55575635beb6361368",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.HO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.RA",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-29T16:26:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "acf9cd006d958733933672424ca0a65f196a7c95de547fbd779db24b66784af1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.6279",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}