Pith Number

pith:UIPEH5WF

pith:2016:UIPEH5WFWFQMJESED6F5DU3XAE

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On the Optimality Equation for Average Cost Markov Decision Processes and its Validity for Inventory Control

Eugene A. Feinberg, Yan Liang

arxiv:1609.08252 v2 · 2016-09-27 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UIPEH5WFWFQMJESED6F5DU3XAE}

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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	2026-05-18T01:03:25.982648Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a21e43f6c5b160c492441f8bd1d3770130a65a8368cb80a912439b37c398bdf0

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.08252 · arxiv_version: 1609.08252v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.08252 · pith_short_12: UIPEH5WFWFQM · pith_short_16: UIPEH5WFWFQMJESE · pith_short_8: UIPEH5WF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UIPEH5WFWFQMJESED6F5DU3XAE \
  | 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: a21e43f6c5b160c492441f8bd1d3770130a65a8368cb80a912439b37c398bdf0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6cbf9f3ef2e97d97d96d504de7572c4c1a26043212d003b0e4b0563af0842441",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-27T04:07:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ead4a56f358faf4c0d03b25b23fa64cfd3517446e76a6ffd39af3993753fa771"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.08252",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}