Pith Number

pith:LJ5IIBJF

pith:2016:LJ5IIBJF5VVGKSBG6PS2VR3P52

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The Complexity of Synchronizing Markov Decision Processes

Laurent Doyen, Mahsa Shirmohammadi, Thierry Massart

arxiv:1604.01942 v2 · 2016-04-07 · cs.FL · cs.LO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LJ5IIBJF5VVGKSBG6PS2VR3P52}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:20:07.588941Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5a7a840525ed6a654826f3e5aac76feea9d4057cc16abf7890201bb774498cbf

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.01942 · arxiv_version: 1604.01942v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.01942 · pith_short_12: LJ5IIBJF5VVG · pith_short_16: LJ5IIBJF5VVGKSBG · pith_short_8: LJ5IIBJF

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/LJ5IIBJF5VVGKSBG6PS2VR3P52 \
  | 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: 5a7a840525ed6a654826f3e5aac76feea9d4057cc16abf7890201bb774498cbf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4c84be287890b4798cee2cc011dac0cbcb4f5cc0dce24846222bc5c4ad9118b6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.FL",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-07T10:01:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f516b574f375e3c2dd7a38307db07ed3cc4892968b249fdc759849372d5986b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.01942",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}