Pith Number

pith:MZ4EBLB4

pith:2026:MZ4EBLB4QZM3VRLSTOOFR2WTYN

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Log-concavity and tunneling: adiabatic quantum optimization for convex functions (with a spike)

Arthur Braida, Elie Bermot, Simon Apers

arxiv:2606.23614 v1 · 2026-06-22 · quant-ph · cs.DS · math-ph · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MZ4EBLB4QZM3VRLSTOOFR2WTYN}

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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	2026-06-23T03:14:32.296910Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

667840ac3c8659bac5729b9c58ead3c348f797976c46900686d9a2f4a8ce7cdf

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.23614 · arxiv_version: 2606.23614v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.23614 · pith_short_12: MZ4EBLB4QZM3 · pith_short_16: MZ4EBLB4QZM3VRLS · pith_short_8: MZ4EBLB4

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/MZ4EBLB4QZM3VRLSTOOFR2WTYN \
  | 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: 667840ac3c8659bac5729b9c58ead3c348f797976c46900686d9a2f4a8ce7cdf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c241a863fd43b0491f6879324115f29ca62c1b3a811efab376d424c4c97d3719",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-22T17:12:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "68c7cde9dc0bdd35388fa577b52991bbbf25c282319a864abab2a5f58a3b90db"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.23614",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}