Pith Number

pith:UWG6DAKI

pith:2026:UWG6DAKIIRQB6C4AAY3BAXVJKL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Warm-Starting MaxCut Relaxation via Low-Depth Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Bao G. Bach, Filip B. Maciejewski, Ilya Safro

arxiv:2608.06212 v1 · 2026-08-06 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UWG6DAKIIRQB6C4AAY3BAXVJKL}

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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	2026-08-07T01:40:57.514561Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a58de1814844601f0b800636105ea952c3a7513b584190a4475b45c4c7a5dd53

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06212 · arxiv_version: 2608.06212v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06212 · pith_short_12: UWG6DAKIIRQB · pith_short_16: UWG6DAKIIRQB6C4A · pith_short_8: UWG6DAKI

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UWG6DAKIIRQB6C4AAY3BAXVJKL \
  | 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: a58de1814844601f0b800636105ea952c3a7513b584190a4475b45c4c7a5dd53

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "546be192f988b134651986c4aac5feea9f362034a8dc0a64a7918b62d6ea6f0f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-06T16:04:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5514849bfd1756c18d49645584fc6b1b2c4459179f7a48e5e97ab58317a36d21"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06212",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}