Pith Number

pith:FXPSGYVH

pith:2022:FXPSGYVHPRWLVC7GFYF3EGOLWM

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Approximate Boltzmann Distributions in Quantum Approximate Optimization

George Siopsis, James Ostrowski, Phillip C. Lotshaw, Rebekah Herrman, Rizwanul Alam, Sarah Powers, Travis S. Humble

arxiv:2212.01857 v3 · 2022-12-04 · quant-ph · physics.comp-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FXPSGYVHPRWLVC7GFYF3EGOLWM}

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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	2026-07-05T07:10:21.752658Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2ddf2362a77c6cba8be62e0bb219cbb318033dcea5ee5fef580b92cce2f1e955

Aliases

arxiv: 2212.01857 · arxiv_version: 2212.01857v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2212.01857 · pith_short_12: FXPSGYVHPRWL · pith_short_16: FXPSGYVHPRWLVC7G · pith_short_8: FXPSGYVH

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/FXPSGYVHPRWLVC7GFYF3EGOLWM \
  | 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: 2ddf2362a77c6cba8be62e0bb219cbb318033dcea5ee5fef580b92cce2f1e955

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "271872918aaebd8ae48f6652355eced94726c1555f9b8208939af66450af374f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.comp-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2022-12-04T15:51:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba7857e4c1e521b56aa57aa32499d3c3c840368fb21a12bfb72597cbcdf27cde"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2212.01857",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}