Pith Number

pith:I7FQU2RQ

pith:2023:I7FQU2RQIIXMB5PQHFX42CW72B

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A Sampling-Based Method for Gittins Index Approximation

Aleida Braaksma, Richard J. Boucherie, Stef Baas

arxiv:2307.11713 v1 · 2023-07-21 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I7FQU2RQIIXMB5PQHFX42CW72B}

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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	2026-07-05T06:33:31.061560Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

47cb0a6a30422ec0f5f0396fcd0adfd06789969cd7599169dbd6da9201b33c0c

Aliases

arxiv: 2307.11713 · arxiv_version: 2307.11713v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2307.11713 · pith_short_12: I7FQU2RQIIXM · pith_short_16: I7FQU2RQIIXMB5PQ · pith_short_8: I7FQU2RQ

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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/I7FQU2RQIIXMB5PQHFX42CW72B \
  | 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: 47cb0a6a30422ec0f5f0396fcd0adfd06789969cd7599169dbd6da9201b33c0c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "06d4748682d8a0e60af0a092691858a619bb34e4c3bc784149a87e7b8fe8be58",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2023-07-21T17:12:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "778d18fef2faac09151f292c1e1b1a11937507aa521d0ef42c434d0686b0e03f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2307.11713",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}