Pith Number

pith:5QBWH2GA

pith:2015:5QBWH2GAHBTPPML34UD7UO2AR4

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Geometry and Determinism of Optimal Stationary Control in Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes

Guido Montufar, Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi, Nihat Ay

arxiv:1503.07206 v2 · 2015-03-24 · math.OC · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5QBWH2GAHBTPPML34UD7UO2AR4}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T01:20:53.879965Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec0363e8c03866f7b17be507fa3b408f272ba01ccf4a0585b7014c70ae744448

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.07206 · arxiv_version: 1503.07206v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.07206 · pith_short_12: 5QBWH2GAHBTP · pith_short_16: 5QBWH2GAHBTPPML3 · pith_short_8: 5QBWH2GA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5QBWH2GAHBTPPML34UD7UO2AR4 \
  | 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: ec0363e8c03866f7b17be507fa3b408f272ba01ccf4a0585b7014c70ae744448

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a7c9e06acc6cc83855d8843a7843d63402841e55cc1b25d72542caf3a8a8373e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-24T21:07:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6cc0a35f5fe2659eb62b6f01f65948460c0f02c5206cfac718e7394cd1918a52"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.07206",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}