Pith Number

pith:VEHZXECH

pith:2014:VEHZXECHQV7ODQKONYOE4RB7X3

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On Average Risk-sensitive Markov Control Processes

Klaus Obermayer, Wilhelm Stannat, Yun Shen

arxiv:1403.3321 v4 · 2014-03-13 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VEHZXECHQV7ODQKONYOE4RB7X3}

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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	2026-05-18T01:36:31.600587Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a90f9b9047857ee1c14e6e1c4e443fbeefdd2410b07f580d3accacc83a46aa61

Aliases

arxiv: 1403.3321 · arxiv_version: 1403.3321v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.3321 · pith_short_12: VEHZXECHQV7O · pith_short_16: VEHZXECHQV7ODQKO · pith_short_8: VEHZXECH

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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/VEHZXECHQV7ODQKONYOE4RB7X3 \
  | 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: a90f9b9047857ee1c14e6e1c4e443fbeefdd2410b07f580d3accacc83a46aa61

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bb64a6394d23d9be165d683b7e0acbbb6622fdaa70f60857050ba9198c337dc5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-03-13T16:36:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "726ba56aaaed1b4b67acb3c8b8ae6b661bf30b0d6ca4dca23afd275bbc9483a4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1403.3321",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}