Pith Number

pith:IUKKFGMX

pith:2025:IUKKFGMX3UW4G5VSSRAU4VHR45

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Exclusive-Sum-of-Products Pipeline for QAOA

Anthony Wilkie, Matthew Brunet, Mostafa Atallah, Rebekah Herrman, Shilpi Shah

arxiv:2508.21686 v1 · 2025-08-29 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IUKKFGMX3UW4G5VSSRAU4VHR45}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-05T12:01:47.838939Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4514a29997dd2dc376b294414e54f1e761c0c71e0e406405fef66fcbdf9045d1

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.21686 · arxiv_version: 2508.21686v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.21686 · pith_short_12: IUKKFGMX3UW4 · pith_short_16: IUKKFGMX3UW4G5VS · pith_short_8: IUKKFGMX

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/IUKKFGMX3UW4G5VSSRAU4VHR45 \
  | 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: 4514a29997dd2dc376b294414e54f1e761c0c71e0e406405fef66fcbdf9045d1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "04b692d3da91519ccef0141466cdb061a6966477af4fa81e7f8e181ad0c3acd5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-29T14:53:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4b6d7a623b3e4914fd4ca10cb90e3cfb99a25d69e80f9be6a8e4f380fe57605a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.21686",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}