Pith Number

pith:IQBSI53D

pith:2020:IQBSI53DLSQNNJVRS7SHSTOSOB

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Approximate optimization of MAXCUT with a local spin algorithm

Aniruddha Bapat, Stephen P. Jordan

arxiv:2008.06054 v1 · 2020-08-13 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IQBSI53DLSQNNJVRS7SHSTOSOB}

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:41:04.051575Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

44032477635ca0d6a6b197e4794dd2706b903e939b6924d2af51c5e47fa6a86f

Aliases

arxiv: 2008.06054 · arxiv_version: 2008.06054v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2008.06054 · pith_short_12: IQBSI53DLSQN · pith_short_16: IQBSI53DLSQNNJVR · pith_short_8: IQBSI53D

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IQBSI53DLSQNNJVRS7SHSTOSOB \
  | 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: 44032477635ca0d6a6b197e4794dd2706b903e939b6924d2af51c5e47fa6a86f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4e91329e1449b87f86ff21c487bcb08e0bf165d23959bee22148bea4258ad1fd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-08-13T18:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b9c2e27e3fa9accb6e5340f0ba72db74697bfbbbb464fa67ce470ccdab09bd59"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2008.06054",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}