Pith Number

pith:VYY64XG4

pith:2019:VYY64XG4INWMCRK2BYBT6OWEXM

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An Optimized Quantum Maximum or Minimum Searching Algorithm and its Circuits

Cen Wang, Hongxiang Guo, Jian Wu, ShiJie Wei, Xiong Gao, Yanhu Chen

arxiv:1908.07943 v1 · 2019-08-21 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VYY64XG4INWMCRK2BYBT6OWEXM}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T23:59:02.756405Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae31ee5cdc436cc1455a0e033f3ac4bb341ec8d0c10d041383b033e2f072ae4d

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.07943 · arxiv_version: 1908.07943v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.07943 · pith_short_12: VYY64XG4INWM · pith_short_16: VYY64XG4INWMCRK2 · pith_short_8: VYY64XG4

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/VYY64XG4INWMCRK2BYBT6OWEXM \
  | 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: ae31ee5cdc436cc1455a0e033f3ac4bb341ec8d0c10d041383b033e2f072ae4d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ac41a38ca8b9ec4c2a960a9475809f9ebb5a5b9eb0a3edff72ab5b27e1376863",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-21T15:47:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "643371b976f406218196050b7eae09f4d6dd5a4ec160133b07ec754b3d1b0707"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.07943",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}