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pith:7WFAOFAD

pith:2016:7WFAOFADDACXS4J4FAGU47VKMX

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Ordinary Differential Equation Methods For Markov Decision Processes and Application to Kullback-Leibler Control Cost

Ana Bu\v{s}i\'c, Sean Meyn

arxiv:1605.04591 v2 · 2016-05-15 · math.OC · cs.SY

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\pithnumber{7WFAOFADDACXS4J4FAGU47VKMX}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:05:40.008876Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fd8a071403180579713c280d4e7eaa65c8abe873b289e3cf8168042897bfc462

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.04591 · arxiv_version: 1605.04591v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.04591 · pith_short_12: 7WFAOFADDACX · pith_short_16: 7WFAOFADDACXS4J4 · pith_short_8: 7WFAOFAD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7WFAOFADDACXS4J4FAGU47VKMX \
  | 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: fd8a071403180579713c280d4e7eaa65c8abe873b289e3cf8168042897bfc462

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-15T18:48:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1d5adbeac69c81a80ada35b0d9c386a56c59e9ab09e7ba9c8beff6a21275aaf2"
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