Pith Number

pith:Y6G2FJHU

pith:2009:Y6G2FJHU6TXHB4NLIN3BBZXNE5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the connections between PCTL and Dynamic Programming

Debasish Chatterjee, Federico Ramponi, John Lygeros, Sean Summers

arxiv:0910.4738 v1 · 2009-10-25 · math.OC · cs.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y6G2FJHU6TXHB4NLIN3BBZXNE5}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T04:01:51.323579Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c78da2a4f4f4ee70f1ab437610e6ed274b665d0dda6f2913e8d3349c9430dc06

Aliases

arxiv: 0910.4738 · arxiv_version: 0910.4738v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0910.4738 · pith_short_12: Y6G2FJHU6TXH · pith_short_16: Y6G2FJHU6TXHB4NL · pith_short_8: Y6G2FJHU

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Y6G2FJHU6TXHB4NLIN3BBZXNE5 \
  | 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: c78da2a4f4f4ee70f1ab437610e6ed274b665d0dda6f2913e8d3349c9430dc06

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f110d6ebf0108cffe81571d883a307abe4ffcf709aa0b0061c0de22e0a18c713",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2009-10-25T14:59:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eebd2a51da11d523a4cf7179904ffcafa4bb9da45ae508681694ef047b2e5550"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0910.4738",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}