Pith Number

pith:PYIBSMEN

pith:2016:PYIBSMENT6PR2B4JP56CRD2ODC

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Algebra and geometry of Hamilton's quaternions

Govind S. Krishnaswami, Sonakshi Sachdev

arxiv:1606.03315 v1 · 2016-06-10 · math.HO · physics.hist-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PYIBSMENT6PR2B4JP56CRD2ODC}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:37.146225Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7e1019308d9f9f1d07897f7c288f4e18b67182d619a021d7b22c3ba4a9217b90

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.03315 · arxiv_version: 1606.03315v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.03315 · pith_short_12: PYIBSMENT6PR · pith_short_16: PYIBSMENT6PR2B4J · pith_short_8: PYIBSMEN

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/PYIBSMENT6PR2B4JP56CRD2ODC \
  | 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: 7e1019308d9f9f1d07897f7c288f4e18b67182d619a021d7b22c3ba4a9217b90

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a8a295d19e70dde3dd412bae2a5326c7218de6b82229f4be2fc1ef5ad36492c1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-10T13:26:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0f8f8a8eeb89f1d9c2f3d2e63d250b83e0f8cfdcdd29efb4f498b5fc7a19b1c9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.03315",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}