Pith Number

pith:KM2NCJO4

pith:2018:KM2NCJO4W4ZXTSAHJ3VCDLTJGQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimal stopping without Snell envelopes

Ari-Pekka Perkki\"o, Teemu Pennanen

arxiv:1812.04112 v2 · 2018-12-10 · math.OC · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KM2NCJO4W4ZXTSAHJ3VCDLTJGQ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-17T23:49:22.022926Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5334d125dcb73379c8074eea21ae693411374f038c417bd614661e54637fcfe6

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.04112 · arxiv_version: 1812.04112v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.04112 · pith_short_12: KM2NCJO4W4ZX · pith_short_16: KM2NCJO4W4ZXTSAH · pith_short_8: KM2NCJO4

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/KM2NCJO4W4ZXTSAHJ3VCDLTJGQ \
  | 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: 5334d125dcb73379c8074eea21ae693411374f038c417bd614661e54637fcfe6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bf60ad2d1710fec7cd0ab3511932f712a52841cc461a7e8d9e0e6928e9bfbd87",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-10T21:46:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12cee814e69356dd2d01aea137d0feb053697732e020f0f0aa425a49cf4c8ebb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.04112",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}