Pith Number

pith:PTEAURU3

pith:2016:PTEAURU3SPU2PNFSOVO4JHFJYS

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Optimizing Variational Quantum Algorithms using Pontryagin's Minimum Principle

Alireza Shabani, Armin Rahmani, Claudio Chamon, Hartmut Neven, Zhi-Cheng Yang

arxiv:1607.06473 v3 · 2016-07-21 · quant-ph · cs.CC

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\pithnumber{PTEAURU3SPU2PNFSOVO4JHFJYS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:35.747623Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7cc80a469b93e9a7b4b2755dc49ca9c4a22e6a9aa888beb8f0a20aeb9c2dc893

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.06473 · arxiv_version: 1607.06473v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.06473 · pith_short_12: PTEAURU3SPU2 · pith_short_16: PTEAURU3SPU2PNFS · pith_short_8: PTEAURU3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PTEAURU3SPU2PNFSOVO4JHFJYS \
  | 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: 7cc80a469b93e9a7b4b2755dc49ca9c4a22e6a9aa888beb8f0a20aeb9c2dc893

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2862d29d27683b8e2d7a82f79e5967ae43683c80524a6de7823ed59ba5d0627f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-21T20:00:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7eb4c68345718cdbeaf563120a4f4bb7343d6ad54eb9522fbdf0d877a7e9e134"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.06473",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}