Pith Number

pith:JHN2MMCA

pith:2004:JHN2MMCAJU7QGOHOWBUYM4W7OA

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Lost at Sea

John A. Shonder, Steven R. Finch

arxiv:math/0411518 v2 · 2004-11-23 · math.OC · math.MG

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\pithnumber{JHN2MMCAJU7QGOHOWBUYM4W7OA}

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

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:19:06.727355Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

49dba630404d3f0338eeb0698672df7002805d1dcaa21f357ce20fbe63859a6f

Aliases

arxiv: math/0411518 · arxiv_version: math/0411518v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0411518 · pith_short_12: JHN2MMCAJU7Q · pith_short_16: JHN2MMCAJU7QGOHO · pith_short_8: JHN2MMCA

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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/JHN2MMCAJU7QGOHOWBUYM4W7OA \
  | 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: 49dba630404d3f0338eeb0698672df7002805d1dcaa21f357ce20fbe63859a6f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d9949a3dc09560298afb0cd2fa6fc60754950d8d60276d82d6ac56ae0ee84548",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.MG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2004-11-23T17:36:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5a54c80506d49a36afb7ab84baec5b1c5e803b9c5ea297c23166cd773326e264"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/0411518",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}