Pith Number

pith:WBWQZYW7

pith:2018:WBWQZYW76XXDBN2VDZKNOCCVTU

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Quantum Algorithms for Scientific Computing and Approximate Optimization

Stuart Hadfield

arxiv:1805.03265 v1 · 2018-05-08 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WBWQZYW76XXDBN2VDZKNOCCVTU}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Per-Shot Evaluation of QAOA on Max-Cut: A Black-Box Implementation Comparison with Goemans-Williamson

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:16:20.627609Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b06d0ce2dff5ee30b7551e54d708559d2ffbe70d7fc26ebd36768da3a9869b35

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.03265 · arxiv_version: 1805.03265v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.03265 · pith_short_12: WBWQZYW76XXD · pith_short_16: WBWQZYW76XXDBN2V · pith_short_8: WBWQZYW7

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/WBWQZYW76XXDBN2VDZKNOCCVTU \
  | 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: b06d0ce2dff5ee30b7551e54d708559d2ffbe70d7fc26ebd36768da3a9869b35

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "724cd55c107b1501d8ad810d176a67e55dcdd1a4db688f99094b8a9f6a02b1c2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-08T20:17:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4d9fe38ccd9faeb4c0d02336b8dce8f5345ee639d5a91c3f455220da0aeeca58"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.03265",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}