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pith:BGHS3PN4

pith:2018:BGHS3PN427JTXAXF26RUHGMMRJ

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Polynomial time algorithm for optimal stopping with fixed accuracy

David A. Goldberg, Yilun Chen

arxiv:1807.02227 v3 · 2018-07-06 · math.PR · cs.DS · math.OC · q-fin.CP · q-fin.MF

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Semi-tractability of optimal stopping problems via a weighted stochastic mesh algorithm

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:19:06.204797Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

098f2dbdbcd7d33b82e5d7a343998c8a4a639391ffe60c24ea426c645b6e3836

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.02227 · arxiv_version: 1807.02227v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.02227 · pith_short_12: BGHS3PN427JT · pith_short_16: BGHS3PN427JTXAXF · pith_short_8: BGHS3PN4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BGHS3PN427JTXAXF26RUHGMMRJ \
  | 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: 098f2dbdbcd7d33b82e5d7a343998c8a4a639391ffe60c24ea426c645b6e3836

Canonical record JSON

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      "q-fin.MF"
    ],
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    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-06T02:53:45Z",
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  }
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