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pith:V76EB5HC

pith:2012:V76EB5HCAKZSOBANJ2E6XCFCAJ
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Go Viral, or Not: Rate-Optimal Control for Resource-Constrained Branching Processes

Kuang Xu, Shie Mannor

arxiv:1203.1072 v2 · 2012-03-05 · math.OC · math.PR

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\pithnumber{V76EB5HCAKZSOBANJ2E6XCFCAJ}

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First computed 2026-05-18T03:37:05.655530Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

affc40f4e202b327040d4e89eb88a2027ba6a3afacca8606f9a1fbf7f4ea53f7

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.1072 · arxiv_version: 1203.1072v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.1072 · pith_short_12: V76EB5HCAKZS · pith_short_16: V76EB5HCAKZSOBAN · pith_short_8: V76EB5HC
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/V76EB5HCAKZSOBANJ2E6XCFCAJ \
  | 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: affc40f4e202b327040d4e89eb88a2027ba6a3afacca8606f9a1fbf7f4ea53f7
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "40f3942cdc6bc6eb79068c6478224ecbe61033528895d0bc0c82c3fca227ad07",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-05T23:14:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "60512784e505b185af719c7ea07b76234ad0bdde3ba0061e3021037109d67a4f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.1072",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}