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pith:76OIGT2T

pith:2016:76OIGT2TSFIGLIGK65I6DOESPO

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An Analysis of Primal-Dual Algorithms for Discounted Markov Decision Processes

Randy Cogill

arxiv:1601.04175 v1 · 2016-01-16 · math.OC

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\pithnumber{76OIGT2TSFIGLIGK65I6DOESPO}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:22:45.733418Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ff9c834f53915065a0caf751e1b8927b97001a4822f83254c7a9092ea50f8847

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.04175 · arxiv_version: 1601.04175v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.04175 · pith_short_12: 76OIGT2TSFIG · pith_short_16: 76OIGT2TSFIGLIGK · pith_short_8: 76OIGT2T

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/76OIGT2TSFIGLIGK65I6DOESPO \
  | 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: ff9c834f53915065a0caf751e1b8927b97001a4822f83254c7a9092ea50f8847

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1de2961319404bd2c5c2d75f90afbbf2bfc246f20ff6499564d18f46724de37b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-16T15:31:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0c2c1e02894b23e9c553b35e269d6513ab6becbce21d6986c2b6264c934c61fe"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}