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pith:F64QVYNT

pith:2024:F64QVYNTIBNK4BJUW3D5BSJFEW

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A General Solution to Bellman's Lost-in-a-forest Problem

Zhipeng Deng

arxiv:2412.10686 v3 · 2024-12-14 · math.OC

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Proof and More Variations of Bellman's Lost-in-a-forest Problem

Straight-line optimality in Bellman's lost-in-a-forest problem for Euclidean balls

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:13:16.936236Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2fb90ae1b3405aae0534b6c7d0c92525acd09a8297851cf2c223fbc6f4c6014f

Aliases

arxiv: 2412.10686 · arxiv_version: 2412.10686v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.10686 · pith_short_12: F64QVYNTIBNK · pith_short_16: F64QVYNTIBNK4BJU · pith_short_8: F64QVYNT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/F64QVYNTIBNK4BJUW3D5BSJFEW \
  | 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: 2fb90ae1b3405aae0534b6c7d0c92525acd09a8297851cf2c223fbc6f4c6014f

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bfc559946a4dd3f77654e449f93af062015a3e55d0f4c533554c9b9328153afe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2024-12-14T05:23:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "31caf7b29d74963b2aa861e828b345901da98cec7b3bcd31bd2dca00a4179a85"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2412.10686",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}