Pith Number

pith:5TTSWDX5

pith:2017:5TTSWDX5OABXTIBSHXEP6ZLOJG

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Lower Bound On the Computational Complexity of Discounted Markov Decision Problems

Mengdi Wang, Yichen Chen

arxiv:1705.07312 v1 · 2017-05-20 · cs.CC · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{5TTSWDX5OABXTIBSHXEP6ZLOJG}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:49.639444Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ece72b0efd700379a0323dc8ff656e499ce6d9f6491bb800c11af498f52eea72

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.07312 · arxiv_version: 1705.07312v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.07312 · pith_short_12: 5TTSWDX5OABX · pith_short_16: 5TTSWDX5OABXTIBS · pith_short_8: 5TTSWDX5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5TTSWDX5OABXTIBSHXEP6ZLOJG \
  | 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: ece72b0efd700379a0323dc8ff656e499ce6d9f6491bb800c11af498f52eea72

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e2692c042bc09a22c8d7c81f47bd424666177552616ce00da61967e98b63229d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-20T14:21:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e29395f0ecb014f4d431f88d6d0b05cdbc994cd717c73e4b8e5054f8561aca8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.07312",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}