Pith Number

pith:HIG3UNLV

pith:2012:HIG3UNLVM7N4YWXQPO2FEFZG3R

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Transient Reward Approximation for Continuous-Time Markov Chains

Bernd Becker, Ernst Moritz Hahn, Holger Hermanns, Ralf Wimmer

arxiv:1212.1251 v2 · 2012-12-06 · cs.LO · cs.NA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HIG3UNLVM7N4YWXQPO2FEFZG3R}

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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	2026-05-18T01:36:26.094185Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3a0dba357567dbcc5af07bb4521726dc47bbf0dacd149fc3409f8f34e8e0ea72

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.1251 · arxiv_version: 1212.1251v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.1251 · pith_short_12: HIG3UNLVM7N4 · pith_short_16: HIG3UNLVM7N4YWXQ · pith_short_8: HIG3UNLV

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/HIG3UNLVM7N4YWXQPO2FEFZG3R \
  | 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: 3a0dba357567dbcc5af07bb4521726dc47bbf0dacd149fc3409f8f34e8e0ea72

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "90420f7805d72c027fcd9a12eaf78565f3928731786b6aa50d4ff9dd60dee0b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-06T07:27:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3c534258e4d4adefb2f7347fa16e3ed318958d9b501c901e7d076969cedb9aed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.1251",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}