Pith Number

pith:VPXE3AGY

pith:2016:VPXE3AGYNYOTHKMU6IMWOZSNKY

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Reward Algorithms for Semi-Markov Processes

Dmitrii Silvestrov, Raimondo Manca

arxiv:1603.05693 v1 · 2016-03-17 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VPXE3AGYNYOTHKMU6IMWOZSNKY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:18:53.738904Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abee4d80d86e1d33a994f21967664d563de5b99dbec53f149a6b7570c443b0c1

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.05693 · arxiv_version: 1603.05693v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.05693 · pith_short_12: VPXE3AGYNYOT · pith_short_16: VPXE3AGYNYOTHKMU · pith_short_8: VPXE3AGY

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/VPXE3AGYNYOTHKMU6IMWOZSNKY \
  | 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: abee4d80d86e1d33a994f21967664d563de5b99dbec53f149a6b7570c443b0c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6233253f49866f0ce7784b003e509c0a914bcb92e6f37fde1450d809bf1d915d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-17T21:15:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73638dbfd3bfe8169c6f8fa18a7562c8c5ddfe0550654841faede747941fdc7c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.05693",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}