Pith Number

pith:EIUXLW2Q

pith:2025:EIUXLW2QKSHQG7CUFWQEGRPTPK

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A review of minimum cost box searching games

Thomas Lidbetter

arxiv:2502.10551 v2 · 2025-02-14 · math.OC · cs.DM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EIUXLW2QKSHQG7CUFWQEGRPTPK}

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4 Citations 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.

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1 paper in Pith

An Exact Solution of the Two-Ball Multi-Look Search Game with Three Boxes and Heterogeneous Costs

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:00:42.229222Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

222975db50548f037c542da04345f37aaece00d210969225fee12c8c8d51bd2d

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.10551 · arxiv_version: 2502.10551v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.10551 · pith_short_12: EIUXLW2QKSHQ · pith_short_16: EIUXLW2QKSHQG7CU · pith_short_8: EIUXLW2Q

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/EIUXLW2QKSHQG7CUFWQEGRPTPK \
  | 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: 222975db50548f037c542da04345f37aaece00d210969225fee12c8c8d51bd2d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "363e2bb3db0b57e3f2a00d101558ec411f3e7223d0d93df4c4ed4e14c4b99cb3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-14T20:46:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1403c1585104e869fc5d7ee7868ae7538493af25ed19ec23824b2878cd73d8b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.10551",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}