Pith Number

pith:YSQVLCQ7

pith:2017:YSQVLCQ7G6MBOKXO2VUWXJX2RD

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On utility maximization without passing by the dual problem

Miklos Rasonyi

arxiv:1702.00982 v4 · 2017-02-03 · q-fin.PM · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YSQVLCQ7G6MBOKXO2VUWXJX2RD}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:20:28.108028Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c4a1558a1f3798172aeed5696ba6fa88d7f423af198b580914d03587630b6871

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.00982 · arxiv_version: 1702.00982v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.00982 · pith_short_12: YSQVLCQ7G6MB · pith_short_16: YSQVLCQ7G6MBOKXO · pith_short_8: YSQVLCQ7

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/YSQVLCQ7G6MBOKXO2VUWXJX2RD \
  | 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: c4a1558a1f3798172aeed5696ba6fa88d7f423af198b580914d03587630b6871

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9de2f3524feedf6839eb37674325c8706dd73507039b750b1922dede10e52a44",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.PM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-03T12:11:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4111648b6373f62c1dec99add488758886f7f936111651eb1a7e61cfa66b3797"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.00982",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}