Pith Number

pith:BZK3TMXE

pith:2011:BZK3TMXECALHHOPHDQGY5XK6V5

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A method for pricing American options using semi-infinite linear programming

S\"oren Christensen

arxiv:1103.4483 v2 · 2011-03-23 · q-fin.CP · math.PR · q-fin.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BZK3TMXECALHHOPHDQGY5XK6V5}

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4 Citations open

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✓ 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	2026-05-18T03:10:24.711344Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e55b9b2e4101673b9e71c0d8edd5eaf7b4f126f7fde5a45df3ce909fe3a082f

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.4483 · arxiv_version: 1103.4483v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.4483 · pith_short_12: BZK3TMXECALH · pith_short_16: BZK3TMXECALHHOPH · pith_short_8: BZK3TMXE

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/BZK3TMXECALHHOPHDQGY5XK6V5 \
  | 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: 0e55b9b2e4101673b9e71c0d8edd5eaf7b4f126f7fde5a45df3ce909fe3a082f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5a4c69c42d14de8378eaf04c10561df8ab3752f98b6b6a69b41a3bba1c343d51",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR",
      "q-fin.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.CP",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-23T10:33:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a0541096e4f18f169bf8e06dde242aa20c2dbdce4099927d17e4513bc59a670b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.4483",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}