Pith Number

pith:6UJL2HJK

pith:2026:6UJL2HJKOQ6IWOWFH7VQYPTCSM

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History-Dependent Recursive Preferences in Markov Decision Processes

William B. Haskell

arxiv:2607.16538 v1 · 2026-07-17 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6UJL2HJKOQ6IWOWFH7VQYPTCSM}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-21T00:20:23.867308Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f512bd1d2a743c8b3ac53feb0c3e62933b2e6889f829ef4136ac8e4ad8277586

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.16538 · arxiv_version: 2607.16538v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.16538 · pith_short_12: 6UJL2HJKOQ6I · pith_short_16: 6UJL2HJKOQ6IWOWF · pith_short_8: 6UJL2HJK

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/6UJL2HJKOQ6IWOWFH7VQYPTCSM \
  | 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: f512bd1d2a743c8b3ac53feb0c3e62933b2e6889f829ef4136ac8e4ad8277586

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8c3da1fc622f51db33de5902e65b29108cef0356c57a5907e8f699ba56fe65a2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-17T22:25:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e264c4770c1ae723463a7cf86a1545bf7c4932597116080c99e0445b998354c5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.16538",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}