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pith:PUEPSSRZ

pith:2020:PUEPSSRZ7PRXUYGM4GOMQOEX77

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The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm Needs to See the Whole Graph: A Typical Case

David Gamarnik, Edward Farhi, Sam Gutmann

arxiv:2004.09002 v1 · 2020-04-20 · quant-ph · cs.CC

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First computed	2026-07-05T00:56:12.126176Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d08f94a39fbe37a60cce19cc83897ffffe68300aa4580cb76ed6b5b5e537b16

Aliases

arxiv: 2004.09002 · arxiv_version: 2004.09002v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2004.09002 · pith_short_12: PUEPSSRZ7PRX · pith_short_16: PUEPSSRZ7PRXUYGM · pith_short_8: PUEPSSRZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PUEPSSRZ7PRXUYGM4GOMQOEX77 \
  | 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: 7d08f94a39fbe37a60cce19cc83897ffffe68300aa4580cb76ed6b5b5e537b16

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.CC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-04-20T00:48:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "280ca312e26827f37126e94b0278143c4a540e0d0415d47d753c82a8017df2dc"
  },
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  }
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