Pith Number

pith:5SEA3ZLI

pith:2021:5SEA3ZLIQVYPPPKNCBZZBNTHS2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Shortcuts to Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Guo-Ping Guo, Menghan Dou, Yahui Chai, Ye Li, Yong-Jian Han, Yu-Chun Wu

arxiv:2112.10943 v3 · 2021-12-21 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5SEA3ZLIQVYPPPKNCBZZBNTHS2}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ 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	2026-07-05T04:17:19.501062Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec880de5688570f7bd4d107390b66796839dd5097cdf9c5600e6b318d5a750a8

Aliases

arxiv: 2112.10943 · arxiv_version: 2112.10943v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2112.10943 · pith_short_12: 5SEA3ZLIQVYP · pith_short_16: 5SEA3ZLIQVYPPPKN · pith_short_8: 5SEA3ZLI

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/5SEA3ZLIQVYPPPKNCBZZBNTHS2 \
  | 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: ec880de5688570f7bd4d107390b66796839dd5097cdf9c5600e6b318d5a750a8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5ceaac9543cda86e6dd23b26fe28fc00ab9fb4d4cc93544b90cdcf8855648a27",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2021-12-21T02:24:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aad2aab2664a17af11e99ad083049224b81fa34cac6141c15949f5d28c892fc1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2112.10943",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}