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pith:MZ2LSSCV

pith:2012:MZ2LSSCVFY7JHMWM277MVYBKBK

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Polynomial Time Algorithms for Branching Markov Decision Processes and Probabilistic Min(Max) Polynomial Bellman Equations

Alistair Stewart, Kousha Etessami, Mihalis Yannakakis

arxiv:1202.4798 v2 · 2012-02-22 · cs.CC · cs.GT

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:01:39.155184Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

6674b948552e3e93b2ccd7fecae02a0a8cf9fe69d0019dfe9e4ce6d767a58105

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.4798 · arxiv_version: 1202.4798v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.4798 · pith_short_12: MZ2LSSCVFY7J · pith_short_16: MZ2LSSCVFY7JHMWM · pith_short_8: MZ2LSSCV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MZ2LSSCVFY7JHMWM277MVYBKBK \
  | 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: 6674b948552e3e93b2ccd7fecae02a0a8cf9fe69d0019dfe9e4ce6d767a58105

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-22T00:14:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d980fbd5c3d31754d88da67198c47e4438e98594be0a9b7d9f11e20a8ac46e6"
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  }
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