Pith Number

pith:NIIFSJFQ

pith:2013:NIIFSJFQHF4WIZ7N5HM33RD6B2

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Empirical Dynamic Programming

Dileep Kalathil, Rahul Jain, William B. Haskell

arxiv:1311.5918 v1 · 2013-11-22 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NIIFSJFQHF4WIZ7N5HM33RD6B2}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:06:21.113017Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6a105924b039796467ede9d9bdc47e0e8e1fafda14adc76bc3f6b0cefe2e129f

Aliases

arxiv: 1311.5918 · arxiv_version: 1311.5918v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1311.5918 · pith_short_12: NIIFSJFQHF4W · pith_short_16: NIIFSJFQHF4WIZ7N · pith_short_8: NIIFSJFQ

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/NIIFSJFQHF4WIZ7N5HM33RD6B2 \
  | 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: 6a105924b039796467ede9d9bdc47e0e8e1fafda14adc76bc3f6b0cefe2e129f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "209c635bd8b37b5fa1d1d463a2d101145cb25657c0e985502ba8c6fa412b13b6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2013-11-22T22:12:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c736622650ccecac7ff29ffd4411e6d8bffa9774ab4ed4191fb92f872726ccc7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1311.5918",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}