Pith Number

pith:QXZFFWRZ

pith:2015:QXZFFWRZ3W2U47A3KUE4XNOIAV

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On repeated zero-sum games with incomplete information and asymptotically bounded values

Fedor Sandomirskiy

arxiv:1509.01727 v2 · 2015-09-05 · cs.GT · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QXZFFWRZ3W2U47A3KUE4XNOIAV}

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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	2026-05-18T01:04:46.602467Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

85f252da39ddb54e7c1b5509cbb5c805614713746112c812e776cb032e5c7aee

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.01727 · arxiv_version: 1509.01727v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.01727 · pith_short_12: QXZFFWRZ3W2U · pith_short_16: QXZFFWRZ3W2U47A3 · pith_short_8: QXZFFWRZ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QXZFFWRZ3W2U47A3KUE4XNOIAV \
  | 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: 85f252da39ddb54e7c1b5509cbb5c805614713746112c812e776cb032e5c7aee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f920e63f5dab71474616a958fd8ae9efd3831409096e91639e724dcdae1e805f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-05T18:39:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db8437a1642819895c8e4a0d0f7398bdb8a1a7b88c8abf1a6b1ecd59f5828de6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.01727",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}