Pith Number

pith:UX6N6MIM

pith:2012:UX6N6MIMPAGQS7XHH7XUXVNWSA

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The solution of discretionary stopping problems with applications to the optimal timing of investment decisions

Timothy C. Johnson

arxiv:1210.2617 v1 · 2012-10-09 · q-fin.CP · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UX6N6MIMPAGQS7XHH7XUXVNWSA}

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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	2026-05-18T03:43:41.114338Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a5fcdf310c780d097ee73fef4bd5b690141a7c0dee54096e499ec6b145af5ee7

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.2617 · arxiv_version: 1210.2617v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.2617 · pith_short_12: UX6N6MIMPAGQ · pith_short_16: UX6N6MIMPAGQS7XH · pith_short_8: UX6N6MIM

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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/UX6N6MIMPAGQS7XHH7XUXVNWSA \
  | 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: a5fcdf310c780d097ee73fef4bd5b690141a7c0dee54096e499ec6b145af5ee7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a19175c86d6ca3f3330d6b1b6e6240a159dad6308d5de28fd162e75da0846d88",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.CP",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-09T14:40:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "351f0b7d4435d1b1d17c6fb37b56a829fc9219c4a84744c3c03d37bca7590b3c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.2617",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}