A Uncommon Publications: Feynman & Sommer-Hipple

[apostolosdt]

I read about the following publication, claiming to be the shortest ever:
Sommer, Thomas, and Hipple, Phys. Rev. 80, 487 (1950).

It made me recall another unsual paper by Feynman, containing only a single equation in its main text:

and I wonder whether other people can recall analogous, uncommon, publications.

 

[jedishrfu]

This blog talks about and shows Conways short math paper

https://paperpile.com/blog/shortest-papers/

of two words and a diagram.

 

[anorlunda]

That reminds me of the famous telegram exchange between two people.

query: ?

reply: !

 

[Dale]

Here is the shortest abstract I have ever seen:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1751-8113/44/49/492001/pdf

 

[Vanadium 50]

There is a math paper where a probable prime is shown to be composite by publishing its factorization. The wholoe paper is xxxxxx = yyyyyy * zzzzzz,

 

[jedishrfu]

I'm waiting for the eight ball paper where the proof is:

It is decidedly so.

Maybe Garrett Lisy could use it in his E8 paper someday.