Pith Number

pith:IKNFI3NS

pith:2026:IKNFI3NSF25BO4PDJ4PAWYAME6

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Scaling Quantum Optimization for Unit Commitment via Pauli Correlation Encoding

Ilya Safro, Kien X. Nguyen, Xiaoyuan Liu

arxiv:2605.17145 v1 · 2026-05-16 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{IKNFI3NSF25BO4PDJ4PAWYAME6}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-20T00:03:42.063067Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

429a546db22eba1771e34f1e0b600c27844b3224befb0d86cf0bacc9f54ff9ec

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.17145 · arxiv_version: 2605.17145v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17145 · pith_short_12: IKNFI3NSF25B · pith_short_16: IKNFI3NSF25BO4PD · pith_short_8: IKNFI3NS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IKNFI3NSF25BO4PDJ4PAWYAME6 \
  | 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: 429a546db22eba1771e34f1e0b600c27844b3224befb0d86cf0bacc9f54ff9ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c35c2df492695c3587cfc1f421b8a21286236f2787e1b2f45a55d4d67be80b78",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-16T20:30:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "da35016ff8455e6f225a033688cdb767f07f9e7ef220c9285ccc9088988dcd3c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.17145",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}