Ethereum Yellow Paper — Symbols Summary

State Transition Function from the Yellow Paper

The Ethereum Yellow Paper is the formal specification of the Ethereum protocol and the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).

It can be used as a reference to build a client implementation, like Geth or Nethermind.

Below is a summary of the main symbols used in the yellow paper and their corresponding meanings. They are categorised as follow:

• General
• Transactions
• Receipts & Logs
• Blocks
• Blocks Header Validity
• Serialisation

You can also see the symbols summary in this gist on Github: https://gist.github.com/CJ42/ccf5799db66aebc189ab88a422dd59aa

References

Breaking Down the Ethereum Yellow Paper

Ethereum Yellow Paper (PDF)