Pith Number

pith:EGXKU7EJ

pith:2005:EGXKU7EJH5PQQDJXLBK4D3JTTH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A two armed bandit type problem revisited

Gilles Pag\`es (PMA)

arxiv:math/0502182 v1 · 2005-02-09 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EGXKU7EJH5PQQDJXLBK4D3JTTH}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:51.335421Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

21aeaa7c893f5f080d375855c1ed3399dde50c1dad3523eb7bc9a1b063b82759

Aliases

arxiv: math/0502182 · arxiv_version: math/0502182v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0502182 · pith_short_12: EGXKU7EJH5PQ · pith_short_16: EGXKU7EJH5PQQDJX · pith_short_8: EGXKU7EJ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EGXKU7EJH5PQQDJXLBK4D3JTTH \
  | 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: 21aeaa7c893f5f080d375855c1ed3399dde50c1dad3523eb7bc9a1b063b82759

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bf38d189dd4fb82e8cb285a3efa77f3d216566e55dcd1656566ea7a903ce2c20",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2005-02-09T10:01:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ecee598b20f188367f7e8758404a6d430c05173543c898e1cfd54199f5bd54ef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/0502182",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}