Pith Number

pith:NQCVYLTY

pith:2012:NQCVYLTYW7FSCSMRYOHQOUJM3K

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Optimal stopping of strong Markov processes

Bao Quoc Ta, Paavo Salminen, S\"oren Christensen

arxiv:1203.4726 v2 · 2012-03-21 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NQCVYLTYW7FSCSMRYOHQOUJM3K}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:58:50.713760Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c055c2e78b7cb214991c38f07512cda83665ce3136bf5d7219b02a6aa162444

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.4726 · arxiv_version: 1203.4726v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.4726 · pith_short_12: NQCVYLTYW7FS · pith_short_16: NQCVYLTYW7FSCSMR · pith_short_8: NQCVYLTY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NQCVYLTYW7FSCSMRYOHQOUJM3K \
  | 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: 6c055c2e78b7cb214991c38f07512cda83665ce3136bf5d7219b02a6aa162444

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fc2d9fc10cc5d8c63910c26b8107b6a87955852ea352424b84c39385f5dbbbdb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-21T12:58:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc3ed651c26fd39a203c04fb4400f02fe016d839d157bae13cd916cc372489fd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.4726",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}