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pith:RP5I3Q3H

pith:2020:RP5I3Q3HHFKBKTTUJHN4I5BR7D

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Beating Random Assignment for Approximating Quantum 2-Local Hamiltonian Problems

Kevin Thompson, Ojas Parekh

arxiv:2012.12347 v1 · 2020-12-22 · quant-ph · cs.DS

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Convergence rates of Sum-of-Hermitian-Squares Hierarchies for the Pauli algebra

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:31:24.086363Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

8bfa8dc3673954154e7449dbc47431f8d09a7ddb0e39a744d3dd813424908a2c

Aliases

arxiv: 2012.12347 · arxiv_version: 2012.12347v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2012.12347 · pith_short_12: RP5I3Q3HHFKB · pith_short_16: RP5I3Q3HHFKBKTTU · pith_short_8: RP5I3Q3H

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RP5I3Q3HHFKBKTTUJHN4I5BR7D \
  | 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: 8bfa8dc3673954154e7449dbc47431f8d09a7ddb0e39a744d3dd813424908a2c

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-12-22T20:41:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5969b0258aa30969fb826949d5424875b517cae943c7b4d920975bc538519564"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2012.12347",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}