Pith Number

pith:QN2VXL5B

pith:1995:QN2VXL5BSQCSABMTYPKS66MTU6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

OCTONION XY-PRODUCT

Geoffrey Dixon

arxiv:hep-th/9503053 v1 · 1995-03-08 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QN2VXL5BSQCSABMTYPKS66MTU6}

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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	2026-05-18T01:06:02.706042Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

83755bafa19405200593c3d52f7993a79c60d14eec54c1ff883e2ebb77aa3ea1

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9503053 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9503053v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9503053 · pith_short_12: QN2VXL5BSQCS · pith_short_16: QN2VXL5BSQCSABMT · pith_short_8: QN2VXL5B

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/QN2VXL5BSQCSABMTYPKS66MTU6 \
  | 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: 83755bafa19405200593c3d52f7993a79c60d14eec54c1ff883e2ebb77aa3ea1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "851b681dd1e968ac5ce8f23c401912650d7c1504832ba6ca480cce39b5e64dc6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1995-03-08T17:52:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "90139ad132b01282b848813831710a615de270f89557fdea6e748837993a4119"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9503053",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}