Pith Number

pith:6YXIZC4N

pith:2014:6YXIZC4NFU2A44LN6HY3GTLXN3

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Valuation of Variable Annuities with Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal and Death Benefits via Stochastic Control Optimization

Pavel V. Shevchenko, Xiaolin Luo

arxiv:1411.5453 v2 · 2014-11-20 · q-fin.CP

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\pithnumber{6YXIZC4NFU2A44LN6HY3GTLXN3}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:19:16.492291Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f62e8c8b8d2d340e716df1f1b34d776ec9a271a4369766715158096afc43fb92

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.5453 · arxiv_version: 1411.5453v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.5453 · pith_short_12: 6YXIZC4NFU2A · pith_short_16: 6YXIZC4NFU2A44LN · pith_short_8: 6YXIZC4N

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6YXIZC4NFU2A44LN6HY3GTLXN3 \
  | 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: f62e8c8b8d2d340e716df1f1b34d776ec9a271a4369766715158096afc43fb92

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2eb565cce32a650dc15437494d699aa321757059d124e4645cea9836e254de4e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.CP",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-20T06:45:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "127c5702a01797891476d22f9574ac4650175ceaa503a5732e715289c75ae8ef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.5453",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}