Pith Number

pith:WT6QXLAO

pith:2011:WT6QXLAOLJYSEM4QTESCO2ZIXG

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Dual representations for general multiple stopping problems

Christian Bender, Jianing Zhang, John Schoenmakers

arxiv:1112.2638 v1 · 2011-12-12 · q-fin.CP · math.PR · q-fin.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WT6QXLAOLJYSEM4QTESCO2ZIXG}

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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	2026-05-18T04:06:33.762719Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b4fd0bac0e5a712233909924276b28b9adc5dcadd05fb208ce7fd44cd067e598

Aliases

arxiv: 1112.2638 · arxiv_version: 1112.2638v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1112.2638 · pith_short_12: WT6QXLAOLJYS · pith_short_16: WT6QXLAOLJYSEM4Q · pith_short_8: WT6QXLAO

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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/WT6QXLAOLJYSEM4QTESCO2ZIXG \
  | 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: b4fd0bac0e5a712233909924276b28b9adc5dcadd05fb208ce7fd44cd067e598

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "745644f12d093e1db3eb42fadad54215a7b34a6a54f569ee6a1c631b5fc0fbef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR",
      "q-fin.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.CP",
    "submitted_at": "2011-12-12T18:00:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d366c04d64c07a0bd0f5d934a6261a2e9df99ca29d381c2c3a5e45f150647802"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1112.2638",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}