Pith Number

pith:OTOFM5V7

pith:2018:OTOFM5V7XRQMXR3VNTQ2WTBXLE

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On the Taylor Expansion of Value Functions

Anton Braverman, Itai Gurvich, Junfei Huang

arxiv:1804.05011 v1 · 2018-04-13 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OTOFM5V7XRQMXR3VNTQ2WTBXLE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:18:32.500461Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

74dc5676bfbc60cbc7756ce1ab4c375904af3558edb5dfdfeb2e805d64a618c8

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.05011 · arxiv_version: 1804.05011v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.05011 · pith_short_12: OTOFM5V7XRQM · pith_short_16: OTOFM5V7XRQMXR3V · pith_short_8: OTOFM5V7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OTOFM5V7XRQMXR3VNTQ2WTBXLE \
  | 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: 74dc5676bfbc60cbc7756ce1ab4c375904af3558edb5dfdfeb2e805d64a618c8

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "988f56caec7915271722253da221c3c2035a1808979a2426b9c8c5fd21203f35",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-13T16:11:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9809e0b081f088aa3be3020cc77dcdc5672a37da4ef9ab8e0ec48e6d161a42b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.05011",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}