Pith Number

pith:IT5XAPC3

pith:2025:IT5XAPC3YL6NMVIVA2OWNEUFWP

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Lower Bound on Howard Policy Iteration for Deterministic Markov Decision Processes

Ali Asadi, Jakob de Raaij, Krishnendu Chatterjee

arxiv:2506.12254 v1 · 2025-06-13 · cs.AI · cs.DM

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\pithnumber{IT5XAPC3YL6NMVIVA2OWNEUFWP}

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:21:50.225045Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

44fb703c5bc2fcd65515069d669285b3fe82442abb81c6c5e3d39141674d0629

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.12254 · arxiv_version: 2506.12254v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.12254 · pith_short_12: IT5XAPC3YL6N · pith_short_16: IT5XAPC3YL6NMVIV · pith_short_8: IT5XAPC3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IT5XAPC3YL6NMVIVA2OWNEUFWP \
  | 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: 44fb703c5bc2fcd65515069d669285b3fe82442abb81c6c5e3d39141674d0629

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7c0bbfdbb7181556e4dcb3155569970a3a0b5f4e605d769b1e445fd82e2f4ec7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-13T22:00:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eb73cbfb27402551c2ef3aba940bdce50c115a757475a72654b208daa0185801"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2506.12254",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}