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pith:QQ224AB4

pith:2019:QQ224AB4OJ6MBMFLSYBTU2KMO5

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A Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm for continuous problems

Guillaume Verdon, Juan Miguel Arrazola, Kamil Br\'adler, Nathan Killoran

arxiv:1902.00409 v1 · 2019-02-01 · quant-ph

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:54:57.547507Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

8435ae003c727cc0b0ab96033a694c7776d90f758f859a86618a3bc01226ac13

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.00409 · arxiv_version: 1902.00409v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.00409 · pith_short_12: QQ224AB4OJ6M · pith_short_16: QQ224AB4OJ6MBMFL · pith_short_8: QQ224AB4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QQ224AB4OJ6MBMFLSYBTU2KMO5 \
  | 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: 8435ae003c727cc0b0ab96033a694c7776d90f758f859a86618a3bc01226ac13

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-02-01T15:45:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e43a145b4ac60565b900fc2e007d8a705c9b9ec4900836c4e14780b1b9c05872"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1902.00409",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}