Pith Number

pith:RFWXXPP7

pith:2008:RFWXXPP75RIO5NSM5X3SY3AWPM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Non-Hermitian Adiabatic Quantum Optimization

Alexander I. Nesterov, Gennady P. Berman

arxiv:0811.4453 v5 · 2008-11-26 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RFWXXPP75RIO5NSM5X3SY3AWPM}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:40:51.770083Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

896d7bbdffec50eeb64cedf72c6c167b04ff82b716451224b859e72a2917ac66

Aliases

arxiv: 0811.4453 · arxiv_version: 0811.4453v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0811.4453 · pith_short_12: RFWXXPP75RIO · pith_short_16: RFWXXPP75RIO5NSM · pith_short_8: RFWXXPP7

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RFWXXPP75RIO5NSM5X3SY3AWPM \
  | 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: 896d7bbdffec50eeb64cedf72c6c167b04ff82b716451224b859e72a2917ac66

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "abf3e91bdfb993b0feea5a6d35bbc9b7aea063af704bee921d1054f84f5c65b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-11-26T23:33:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "03ccf0c3388ba1d0cafe37a9e5d88693c8212e9cef4538696581c57596e7f3fe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0811.4453",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}