Pith Number

pith:LOQLBAJ2

pith:2001:LOQLBAJ22I3C52HIYS4PW7KYHI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Octonions

John C. Baez

arxiv:math/0105155 v4 · 2001-05-17 · math.RA · hep-th · math.HO · math.QA · math.RT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LOQLBAJ22I3C52HIYS4PW7KYHI}

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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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3 papers in Pith

Leptonic CP Conservation and the Quark CP Phase from Octonionic Flavor Structure

Fermion Mass Hierarchies and the Exceptional Jordan Algebra

Massless Representations in Conformal Space and Their de Sitter Restrictions

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:12:10.847617Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5ba0b0813ad2362ee8e8c4b8fb7d583a3bef58e8a302ae749ca77f8fbdc09743

Aliases

arxiv: math/0105155 · arxiv_version: math/0105155v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0105155 · pith_short_12: LOQLBAJ22I3C · pith_short_16: LOQLBAJ22I3C52HI · pith_short_8: LOQLBAJ2

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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/LOQLBAJ22I3C52HIYS4PW7KYHI \
  | 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: 5ba0b0813ad2362ee8e8c4b8fb7d583a3bef58e8a302ae749ca77f8fbdc09743

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "47d2185689499905ac48991ef598ddb904c618b080c6b3c9bc4fa3f7d98f4b5b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th",
      "math.HO",
      "math.QA",
      "math.RT"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.RA",
    "submitted_at": "2001-05-17T23:31:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "549b279907f70aa3c33a6de4f654e8b3607ccc57b612aa2628b38829a6df58b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/0105155",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}