Pith Number

pith:W5SUGRL4

pith:2015:W5SUGRL4MQRN4YPMAVP3GIMGER

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Optimal control in Markov decision processes via distributed optimization

Jie Fu, Shuo Han, Ufuk Topcu

arxiv:1503.07189 v1 · 2015-03-24 · cs.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W5SUGRL4MQRN4YPMAVP3GIMGER}

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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	2026-05-18T02:20:28.096150Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b76543457c6422de61ec055fb3218624477dc0a4d08173efbbb8c018c8c9a9c0

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.07189 · arxiv_version: 1503.07189v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.07189 · pith_short_12: W5SUGRL4MQRN · pith_short_16: W5SUGRL4MQRN4YPM · pith_short_8: W5SUGRL4

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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/W5SUGRL4MQRN4YPMAVP3GIMGER \
  | 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: b76543457c6422de61ec055fb3218624477dc0a4d08173efbbb8c018c8c9a9c0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "280d87ccc84a9be0856a15c064b75238e437aa6044008cd5007b3121d0d690c6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SY",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-24T20:28:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0650bfacf777ce55bc090a4059c282a28fd2f2e40ee3ef01e9555ebff992c8c0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.07189",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}