Pith Number

pith:WCSBTICK

pith:2014:WCSBTICKS2BLDB7IJXWSLHZIRC

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On Convergence of Value Iteration for a Class of Total Cost Markov Decision Processes

Huizhen Yu

arxiv:1411.1459 v2 · 2014-11-06 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WCSBTICKS2BLDB7IJXWSLHZIRC}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:29:38.923520Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b0a419a04a9682b187e84ded259f2888a3ad56f6498201a6f49faf898d32e0a2

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.1459 · arxiv_version: 1411.1459v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.1459 · pith_short_12: WCSBTICKS2BL · pith_short_16: WCSBTICKS2BLDB7I · pith_short_8: WCSBTICK

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/WCSBTICKS2BLDB7IJXWSLHZIRC \
  | 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: b0a419a04a9682b187e84ded259f2888a3ad56f6498201a6f49faf898d32e0a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b89be19ddbc3a38da3efd66a099ca5174e845b2462dbdaeed573ca14a73ee3c9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-06T00:18:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4816c2692168d51716556a54ab33c206dea833f7bbb8cda75ea33046cea54a68"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.1459",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}