Pith Number

pith:AI3XA6M6

pith:2009:AI3XA6M6LD6Y76VQGSLS4LYKSX

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On ergodic two-armed bandits

Pierre Tarr\`es, Pierre Vandekerkhove

arxiv:0905.0463 v2 · 2009-05-04 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AI3XA6M6LD6Y76VQGSLS4LYKSX}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:57:01.070668Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

023770799e58fd8ffab034972e2f0a95eb88a233a25257a7f1c631f90ffd256a

Aliases

arxiv: 0905.0463 · arxiv_version: 0905.0463v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0905.0463 · pith_short_12: AI3XA6M6LD6Y · pith_short_16: AI3XA6M6LD6Y76VQ · pith_short_8: AI3XA6M6

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AI3XA6M6LD6Y76VQGSLS4LYKSX \
  | 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: 023770799e58fd8ffab034972e2f0a95eb88a233a25257a7f1c631f90ffd256a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9afc0e4c5c123439e97282840921b43f5aa1701668486fe37bea561520a4c8b2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2009-05-04T19:14:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0de1f1010e36b9683f78ffff403e61de8a53c7ec8bbd47f8d3005574d5302795"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0905.0463",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}