Pith Number

pith:VCHTSX36

pith:2010:VCHTSX3672BOLMOBAHPJ2ARWIS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Use of Policy Iteration as an Easy Way of Pricing American Options

Christoph Reisinger, Jan Hendrik Witte

arxiv:1012.4976 v4 · 2010-12-22 · q-fin.CP · math.NA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VCHTSX3672BOLMOBAHPJ2ARWIS}

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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	2026-05-18T03:53:29.559746Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a88f395f7efe82e5b1c101de9d0236448b41ae2cb82162e0a290c13ea334aa71

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.4976 · arxiv_version: 1012.4976v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.4976 · pith_short_12: VCHTSX3672BO · pith_short_16: VCHTSX3672BOLMOB · pith_short_8: VCHTSX36

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VCHTSX3672BOLMOBAHPJ2ARWIS \
  | 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: a88f395f7efe82e5b1c101de9d0236448b41ae2cb82162e0a290c13ea334aa71

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "92d4ce66bf625136aaac4595a5c4445f4b6941f0132d569a9b23ccca585b6415",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.NA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.CP",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-22T13:57:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "61e704ecd1585ab05f694d2f9ce95d062147020057b9efab765524c740e65786"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.4976",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}