Pith Number

pith:2IMXDOFM

pith:2014:2IMXDOFMK32JM3G2LBLXFZTMS7

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A Generalized Reduced Linear Program for Markov Decision Processes

Chandrashekar Lakshminarayanan, Shalabh Bhatnagar

arxiv:1409.3536 v2 · 2014-09-11 · cs.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2IMXDOFMK32JM3G2LBLXFZTMS7}

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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	2026-05-18T02:34:51.756809Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d21971b8ac56f4966cda585772e66c97cf475e596cc87129324c328f882c5e3c

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.3536 · arxiv_version: 1409.3536v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.3536 · pith_short_12: 2IMXDOFMK32J · pith_short_16: 2IMXDOFMK32JM3G2 · pith_short_8: 2IMXDOFM

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2IMXDOFMK32JM3G2LBLXFZTMS7 \
  | 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: d21971b8ac56f4966cda585772e66c97cf475e596cc87129324c328f882c5e3c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6c82b6ec400a3b8505cc53d8c017df3accf0a5655dc6f969995a823b5a728259",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SY",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-11T18:42:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c86b380e7a16635e1b0f12f3a7a592e8f50f41682fd0e2a3d584bfae7f41a65"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.3536",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}