Pith Number

pith:3VDMEYKK

pith:2012:3VDMEYKKUSAH6XTMDHRL7N2AFG

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A Theory of Goal-Oriented MDPs with Dead Ends

Andrey Kolobov, Daniel Weld, Mausam

arxiv:1210.4875 v1 · 2012-10-16 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3VDMEYKKUSAH6XTMDHRL7N2AFG}

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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	2026-05-18T03:42:55.262042Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd46c2614aa4807f5e6c19e2bfb74029892a68905bb9b5494881189d8f801edb

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.4875 · arxiv_version: 1210.4875v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.4875 · pith_short_12: 3VDMEYKKUSAH · pith_short_16: 3VDMEYKKUSAH6XTM · pith_short_8: 3VDMEYKK

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/3VDMEYKKUSAH6XTMDHRL7N2AFG \
  | 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: dd46c2614aa4807f5e6c19e2bfb74029892a68905bb9b5494881189d8f801edb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d44bbd3578094e3b778b167444e9483174252166c21bc32af8a82d9916213f9c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-16T17:42:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "04fbd802e945a5bbede2ec43d2fc95772470e0184e7ec168d8af40a49129792c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.4875",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}