Pith Number

pith:E4LGKWFP

pith:1999:E4LGKWFPW36AWUW4X2C5CLGZRB

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A Quantum Algorithm for finding the Maximum

Ashish Ahuja, Sanjiv Kapoor

arxiv:quant-ph/9911082 v1 · 1999-11-18 · quant-ph

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3 papers in Pith

Quantum enhanced rare event discovery and sampling

A Quantum Algorithm for Finding $k$-Minima

Identifying vulnerable nodes and detecting malicious entanglement patterns to handle st-connectivity attacks in quantum networks

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T14:47:29.906935Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

27166558afb6fc0b52dcbe85d12cd9885727a5ba73c165ce69ae6343adeb07ac

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9911082 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9911082v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9911082 · pith_short_12: E4LGKWFPW36A · pith_short_16: E4LGKWFPW36AWUW4 · pith_short_8: E4LGKWFP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/E4LGKWFPW36AWUW4X2C5CLGZRB \
  | 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: 27166558afb6fc0b52dcbe85d12cd9885727a5ba73c165ce69ae6343adeb07ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "234c3510c879303bf09055a9c5edfd1b2948f38550c4496cef537b132844aba4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-11-18T08:39:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5a5dc96ca7743057c5477ea991268c8da5e2af21957eaedd1b95b7f7b174d54a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9911082",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}