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pith:DCVVTNSZ

pith:2026:DCVVTNSZNUDAH5VCI6HGVXASOC

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Sharp Bounds on the Eigenvalues of Kikuchi Graphs and Applications to Quantum Max Cut

Ainesh Bakshi, Anqi Li, Arpon Basu, Pravesh Kothari

arxiv:2605.14994 v1 · 2026-05-14 · quant-ph · cs.DS · math.CO

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:38:54.980621Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

18ab59b6596d0603f6a2478e6adc1270ab32f20abb62c39b9b136a85976e58cd

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.14994 · arxiv_version: 2605.14994v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.14994 · pith_short_12: DCVVTNSZNUDA · pith_short_16: DCVVTNSZNUDAH5VC · pith_short_8: DCVVTNSZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DCVVTNSZNUDAH5VCI6HGVXASOC \
  | 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: 18ab59b6596d0603f6a2478e6adc1270ab32f20abb62c39b9b136a85976e58cd

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.DS",
      "math.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-14T15:56:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "16293f12a7b2a2f17b7f95e5345c041196d58b03d9c7785ba86369e48dfeb4b9"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}