Pith Number

pith:SS6VWHLM

pith:2026:SS6VWHLMV27F6CW5Q5NSF56WPH

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Measurements Number Scaling in the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm for MaxCut: A Statistical Analysis

Adi Makmal, Inbar Chefer, Uri Shaham

arxiv:2607.03340 v1 · 2026-07-03 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SS6VWHLMV27F6CW5Q5NSF56WPH}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-07T02:17:38.161358Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

94bd5b1d6caebe5f0add875b22f7d679c8fccfba42b1ac034be20418115ddc2c

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.03340 · arxiv_version: 2607.03340v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.03340 · pith_short_12: SS6VWHLMV27F · pith_short_16: SS6VWHLMV27F6CW5 · pith_short_8: SS6VWHLM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SS6VWHLMV27F6CW5Q5NSF56WPH \
  | 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: 94bd5b1d6caebe5f0add875b22f7d679c8fccfba42b1ac034be20418115ddc2c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "01d2ee03c1f413fe6a880a2765a5f18c79a75397e571dea683915e44fbe867af",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-03T13:57:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6a5f12eec4de97250f8031d3df0bbcd4be59790b8c1dc4023efe128d369b4f9e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.03340",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}