Pith Number

pith:MR2E7KE7

pith:2020:MR2E7KE7JXUDIOWOEFDKYXPTE4

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A continuous time formulation of stochastic dual control to avoid the curse of dimensionality

Barry D. Hughes, Christopher M. Baker, Iadine Chad\`es, Martin P\'eron

arxiv:2004.13295 v1 · 2020-04-28 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MR2E7KE7JXUDIOWOEFDKYXPTE4}

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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	2026-07-05T00:58:57.766294Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

64744fa89f4de8343ace2146ac5df3271d7ea0043c773ca72b1a0367b8b6c0f6

Aliases

arxiv: 2004.13295 · arxiv_version: 2004.13295v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2004.13295 · pith_short_12: MR2E7KE7JXUD · pith_short_16: MR2E7KE7JXUDIOWO · pith_short_8: MR2E7KE7

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/MR2E7KE7JXUDIOWOEFDKYXPTE4 \
  | 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: 64744fa89f4de8343ace2146ac5df3271d7ea0043c773ca72b1a0367b8b6c0f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b30e8719d9807184975118f964aea89832158232c8adef7e4b89e1ee0e971968",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2020-04-28T04:34:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2019dfd991e84e7b7d6f24ff2f8a774d787e6645e68aed1c3f56329bc8a8543b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2004.13295",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}