Pith Number

pith:T2JQNPGP

pith:1998:T2JQNPGPWH5LRYPVMYZ6MEBOZ4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quasialgebra structure of the octonions

H. Albuquerque, S. Majid

arxiv:math/9802116 v1 · 1998-02-25 · math.QA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T2JQNPGPWH5LRYPVMYZ6MEBOZ4}

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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	2026-07-04T14:40:27.868566Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9e9306bccfb1fab8e1f56633e6102ecf173a1335c8d5be1518717872a7b292f9

Aliases

arxiv: math/9802116 · arxiv_version: math/9802116v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/9802116 · pith_short_12: T2JQNPGPWH5L · pith_short_16: T2JQNPGPWH5LRYPV · pith_short_8: T2JQNPGP

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/T2JQNPGPWH5LRYPVMYZ6MEBOZ4 \
  | 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: 9e9306bccfb1fab8e1f56633e6102ecf173a1335c8d5be1518717872a7b292f9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "707d71f23059bbbad5326f1d4eede8005a5f54ad9264800fd212f81817d350fb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.QA",
    "submitted_at": "1998-02-25T20:34:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "637efef5b8f48d18a5f28aa05050c436788ff24ff089dce9c1c2eacc36680324"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/9802116",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}