Pith Number

pith:JJLGLWOI

pith:2026:JJLGLWOIBQYL3JQXDP6JAWIQ4F

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Quantum Approximate Optimization of Integer Graph Problems and Surpassing Semidefinite Programming for Max-k-Cut

Anuj Apte, Michael A. Perlin, Ruslan Shaydulin, Sami Boulebnane, Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, Yuwei Jin

arxiv:2602.05956 v3 · 2026-02-05 · quant-ph · math-ph · math.MP · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JJLGLWOIBQYL3JQXDP6JAWIQ4F}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-22T02:04:39.583286Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4a5665d9c80c30bda6171bfc905910e1708c4647e754f77f7ca5e20f5996c1f3

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.05956 · arxiv_version: 2602.05956v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.05956 · pith_short_12: JJLGLWOIBQYL · pith_short_16: JJLGLWOIBQYL3JQX · pith_short_8: JJLGLWOI

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JJLGLWOIBQYL3JQXDP6JAWIQ4F \
  | 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: 4a5665d9c80c30bda6171bfc905910e1708c4647e754f77f7ca5e20f5996c1f3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "51dd32bf856191983d40dd183cec5dcda756f97675e3953d384f63630fb8e4b1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-05T18:11:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "72617aeefad051aec4eb448179420f4e8a888880969a46caee70c0cb35b59239"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.05956",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}