Pith Number

pith:IY6EO7ZJ

pith:2018:IY6EO7ZJBWQZ3L6NTLWWUTCO46

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Finite-State Approximations to Discounted and Average Cost Constrained Markov Decision Processes

Naci Saldi

arxiv:1807.02994 v1 · 2018-07-09 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IY6EO7ZJBWQZ3L6NTLWWUTCO46}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T00:11:13.127148Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

463c477f290da19dafcd9aed6a4c4ee79d385a1cd365a72548f5e6caaf902641

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.02994 · arxiv_version: 1807.02994v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.02994 · pith_short_12: IY6EO7ZJBWQZ · pith_short_16: IY6EO7ZJBWQZ3L6N · pith_short_8: IY6EO7ZJ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IY6EO7ZJBWQZ3L6NTLWWUTCO46 \
  | 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: 463c477f290da19dafcd9aed6a4c4ee79d385a1cd365a72548f5e6caaf902641

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ab71854c74a0a4cc1cce824297c1c2bc4764901c3ff4c612e1f78f01027a7393",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-09T09:13:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e1d56a482d2cd8fe90e346ea4c4a7ca8d02bc2c530237c36d0f02738c3e3bb1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.02994",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}