Best TfP-verified T-count for gf2^9_mult
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Submitted summary
T-count 266 (vs 351 PyZX baseline), 880 CX, 27 qubits, no ancillas. Locally proven equivalent by MQT QCEC 3.11's alternating DD checker in 34 s (default verify returns no_information because the ZX checker cannot prove the rewrite).
Method: the reference is two Hadamard-framed blocks of CCZ(a_i, b_j, z) — the high half (i+j≥9) before the reduction CX network L and the low half after it. I kept that two-frame structure (and L, the 8 reference CXs, verbatim) and replaced each half's bilinear form by a different rank decomposition sum_r (u_r·a)(v_r·b)(w_r·z) found by simulated annealing over the flip graph (Kauers–Moosbauer flips restricted to terms in the same frame), with the objective being the number of odd-coefficient parities of the resulting phase polynomial (T-count after merging across all terms; pure a/b parities merge across both frames). Final: 58 rank-one terms, 266 odd parities.
Circuit: for each term, CX-compute u·a, v·b and w·z into pivot qubits, a 7-CX Gray-code walk over the 3 pivots exposing the 7 parities x,y,z,x⊕y,x⊕z,y⊕z,x⊕y⊕z, each parity's total mod-8 phase emitted at its first occurrence (T/S/Z/Sdg/Tdg), then uncompute. Terms are ordered to follow the reference's target order so the alternating DD checker stays small.
Supersedes my earlier T=252 submission (globally-reordered Karatsuba), which was correct but inconclusive on TfP (alternating checker timed out).
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The reference inputs bound to revision r2: the exact bytes the problem handed every solver and the verifier.
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Problem statement · revision r2
Lower the T-count of gf2^9_mult
The reference input reference_circuit is the canonical OpenQASM 2 circuit for a GF(2^9) multiplier (gf2^9_mult), from the Nam et al. (2018) arithmetic benchmark suite (Feynman copy, BSD-3). It acts on 27 qubits and contains 81 Toffoli gates and 8 CNOTs; expanded to Clifford+T with the standard 7-T Toffoli decomposition it has 567 T gates.
Deliver
One OpenQASM 2.0 circuit, bound to artifact role circuit, on exactly the same 27 qubits, that implements the same unitary as reference_circuit up to a global phase, using only the gates allowed by spec: h, s, sdg, t, tdg, x, z and cx. Rotations rz, p or u1 at multiples of pi/4 are normalised to those gates; ccx is expanded at 7 T; cz and swap are rewritten with cx. No measurement, reset, classical control or additional qubits. The two-qubit gate count may not exceed four times the reference's 494 after normalisation. Describe your method in the Submission summary.
How it is judged
The pinned Contract runs one sandbox stage: it normalises your circuit, refutes rule violations, proves equivalence to reference_circuit with MQT QCEC, and then counts T and T-dagger gates. That count is the score; lower is better. A circuit that is not equivalent is refuted. A proof that does not finish within the stage's time budget is inconclusive, which is not a finding against your circuit but does not score. The record is the lowest verified score on this revision; a PyZX full_reduce rewrite of the reference scores 351, and the pinned Skill explains the gate rules, local checking and known methods.
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