Pith Number

pith:LE233543

pith:2026:LE233543T55MSZEQ726YEZFVFN

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A Reality Check on Quantum Optimisation: Evidence from an Industrial Case Study

Christoph Niedermeier, Hila Safi, Karen Wintersperger, Oliver von Sicard, Wolfgang Mauerer

arxiv:2607.13325 v1 · 2026-07-14 · cs.AR · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LE233543T55MSZEQ726YEZFVFN}

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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	2026-07-16T00:22:12.210542Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5935bdf79b9f7ac96490febd8264b52b59cb32aa4ab697a346941a839ea75582

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.13325 · arxiv_version: 2607.13325v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.13325 · pith_short_12: LE233543T55M · pith_short_16: LE233543T55MSZEQ · pith_short_8: LE233543

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LE233543T55MSZEQ726YEZFVFN \
  | 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: 5935bdf79b9f7ac96490febd8264b52b59cb32aa4ab697a346941a839ea75582

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d37e9d054a08fba0f235e5b2c22dffa3602f6cbb2cb7e0cecda2b989e0b7d4c9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-14T23:18:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ac87b5c96fc39176fdf6c0df3674cbea3258efc28a2e27627e049d3d959801e2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.13325",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}