Pith Number

pith:KO64C2MH

pith:2010:KO64C2MH7N7PWCKMQB4MFLQIQQ

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A reduced complexity numerical method for optimal gate synthesis

Matthew R. James, Mile Gu, Srinivas Sridharan, William M. McEneaney

arxiv:1011.6013 v1 · 2010-11-28 · math.OC · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{KO64C2MH7N7PWCKMQB4MFLQIQQ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:34:09.722724Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

53bdc16987fb7efb094c8078c2ae088407208c253b62a96778399194df233428

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.6013 · arxiv_version: 1011.6013v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.6013 · pith_short_12: KO64C2MH7N7P · pith_short_16: KO64C2MH7N7PWCKM · pith_short_8: KO64C2MH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KO64C2MH7N7PWCKMQB4MFLQIQQ \
  | 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: 53bdc16987fb7efb094c8078c2ae088407208c253b62a96778399194df233428

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-28T03:13:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "48c52c179853371cdcc5f84d3fa3e6bc4bd4817c66a69774e68a43d6202cb94e"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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