Pith Number

pith:J6SZMSRE

pith:2026:J6SZMSREI7D7MA72WGDGB3ABV3

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Absence of quantum advantage for approximate spin glass optimization

Dries Sels, Flaviano Morone

arxiv:2607.08708 v1 · 2026-07-09 · quant-ph · cond-mat.dis-nn

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J6SZMSREI7D7MA72WGDGB3ABV3}

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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	2026-07-10T01:19:58.108031Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4fa5964a2447c7f603fab18660ec01aeecbe590116155fb4596cd8d201f1fb87

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.08708 · arxiv_version: 2607.08708v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.08708 · pith_short_12: J6SZMSREI7D7 · pith_short_16: J6SZMSREI7D7MA72 · pith_short_8: J6SZMSRE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/J6SZMSREI7D7MA72WGDGB3ABV3 \
  | 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: 4fa5964a2447c7f603fab18660ec01aeecbe590116155fb4596cd8d201f1fb87

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "72165695273a26c6c206207e2aa806d6d94752257b55734d6756b520e26c1350",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.dis-nn"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-09T17:18:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e95fd7be8e86f881ee9fc2227b9caa3547bbf29fa244a268d17faf67424f9d6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.08708",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}