Pith Number

pith:VCAEH2R5

pith:2017:VCAEH2R5XAURFJ2G2E3S3TNGF4

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Pricing American Call Options by the Black-Scholes Equation with a Nonlinear Volatility Function

Daniel Sevcovic, Maria do Rosario Grossinho, Yaser Faghan Kord

arxiv:1707.00358 v3 · 2017-07-02 · q-fin.CP

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\pithnumber{VCAEH2R5XAURFJ2G2E3S3TNGF4}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:13:21.969901Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a88043ea3db82912a746d1372dcda62f39371470cde95fd0cb81451486bec39c

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.00358 · arxiv_version: 1707.00358v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.00358 · pith_short_12: VCAEH2R5XAUR · pith_short_16: VCAEH2R5XAURFJ2G · pith_short_8: VCAEH2R5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VCAEH2R5XAURFJ2G2E3S3TNGF4 \
  | 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: a88043ea3db82912a746d1372dcda62f39371470cde95fd0cb81451486bec39c

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.CP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-02T21:08:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5788814ddcbc5da9c75511f236113d27ffd659c509b6b93cb1bbcd197e77d334"
  },
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  }
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