Pith Number

pith:VZKFGWEX

pith:2017:VZKFGWEXHX3D4CT6Y6YDYSX2CU

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On the stochastic decision problems with backward stochastic viability property

Getachew K. Befekadu

arxiv:1709.04069 v2 · 2017-09-12 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VZKFGWEXHX3D4CT6Y6YDYSX2CU}

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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	2026-05-18T00:26:43.617466Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae545358973df63e0a7ec7b03c4afa1506706c97530841d26ded14b83e15199a

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.04069 · arxiv_version: 1709.04069v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.04069 · pith_short_12: VZKFGWEXHX3D · pith_short_16: VZKFGWEXHX3D4CT6 · pith_short_8: VZKFGWEX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VZKFGWEXHX3D4CT6Y6YDYSX2CU \
  | 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: ae545358973df63e0a7ec7b03c4afa1506706c97530841d26ded14b83e15199a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd1e943a495e71706c1ff6ffcb4739f10557c878b36c1a08751fb2e102144000",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-12T22:07:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "da5c688d708686b9c3dbf8c298274409a483d3fb70b01a5709231b46bc6e6521"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.04069",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}