Pith Number

pith:H4ARO5S2

pith:2022:H4ARO5S2GKWXMV4JIDS5SNAJAU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Solving MaxCut with Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution

George Siopsis, James Ostrowski, Phillip Lotshaw, Rebekah Herrman, Rizwanul Alam, Travis Humble

arxiv:2201.12221 v2 · 2022-01-28 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H4ARO5S2GKWXMV4JIDS5SNAJAU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T05:46:51.318346Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3f0117765a32ad76578940e5d934090519479a3863814200c4800360da477611

Aliases

arxiv: 2201.12221 · arxiv_version: 2201.12221v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2201.12221 · pith_short_12: H4ARO5S2GKWX · pith_short_16: H4ARO5S2GKWXMV4J · pith_short_8: H4ARO5S2

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/H4ARO5S2GKWXMV4JIDS5SNAJAU \
  | 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: 3f0117765a32ad76578940e5d934090519479a3863814200c4800360da477611

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e82ba706435bc3ca0b4357fc4fa7902b182b10bb62e5bd2f92a326b60c1584ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2022-01-28T16:24:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "54962a71973c57a89356b90fe4332192553007095f8e2583c00996b68bdbee8a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2201.12221",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}