Pith Number

pith:ROAMVR4P

pith:2014:ROAMVR4PHH4N2N7LYDE5EINF4Z

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Finite-horizon optimal multiple switching with signed switching costs

Randall Martyr

arxiv:1411.3971 v3 · 2014-11-14 · math.OC · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ROAMVR4PHH4N2N7LYDE5EINF4Z}

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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	2026-05-18T01:02:21.381048Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b80cac78f39f8dd37ebc0c9d221a5e661e21f0e34779976503b385a1e1c0ed6

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.3971 · arxiv_version: 1411.3971v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.3971 · pith_short_12: ROAMVR4PHH4N · pith_short_16: ROAMVR4PHH4N2N7L · pith_short_8: ROAMVR4P

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/ROAMVR4PHH4N2N7LYDE5EINF4Z \
  | 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: 8b80cac78f39f8dd37ebc0c9d221a5e661e21f0e34779976503b385a1e1c0ed6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ec92f2c4f3067d556dfa7bc102d638845f816f81b7f4707f602025b578ac74c2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-14T16:52:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a1339ee870f7f4e9a91a632fbeee903bc13b0cf7c7f6c39cb85142f2f32350c6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.3971",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}