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pith:QNZHJPTP

pith:2019:QNZHJPTPRSEHAST2W3JLLUAIST

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Multistart Methods for Quantum Approximate Optimization

Ilya Safro, Jeffrey Larson, Ruslan Shaydulin

arxiv:1905.08768 v3 · 2019-05-21 · quant-ph

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First computed	2026-07-05T04:31:54.845680Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

837274be6f8c88704a7ab6d2b5d00894c5b317c2792346d44859284d3b383883

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.08768 · arxiv_version: 1905.08768v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.08768 · pith_short_12: QNZHJPTPRSEH · pith_short_16: QNZHJPTPRSEHAST2 · pith_short_8: QNZHJPTP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QNZHJPTPRSEHAST2W3JLLUAIST \
  | 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: 837274be6f8c88704a7ab6d2b5d00894c5b317c2792346d44859284d3b383883

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "19e64d672087ae21e7788fa274f0d3727ecb57e662ed2f127e38235dc219d768",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-21T17:39:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0ddd0f0832a75b8f138b85cdd4a96f4967883d5557fed40719e8476f2290dee8"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1905.08768",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}