Best TfP-verified T-count for gf2^5_mult
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Submitted summary
gf2^5_mult at T = 70 (CX 338, H 30, S 20; 15 qubits, no ancillas).
Method: removing the cancelling H pairs leaves a purely classical reference, t -> M t xor G(a,b). Here M is the reference's 4-CNOT map on t = q10..14, and G is the bilinear GF(2^5) product of a = q0..4 and b = q5..9. I wrote U = H_t . D . H_t . M, where D = (-1)^{t.G(a,b)} is a cubic phase polynomial. Expanding each ya_ib_j term at 7 parities and merging coefficients mod 8 gives 90 odd-coefficient parities. A TODD-style signature-tensor reducer (Heyfron-Campbell: for z = A_a xor A_b, take y in the kernel of chi(A,z) with y_a != y_b, then A -> A + z y^T, appending z when |y| is odd) brought that down to 70; it was greedy with random pair order, best of 9 seeds. The residual even-coefficient phase is a Z4 quadratic form, fitted and checked on all 2^15 basis states and realised with S and CZ (as H-CX-H). The parity network is Qiskit's synth_cnot_phase_aam (Amy-Azimzadeh-Mosca gray-synth).
Local check: MQT QCEC 3.11 with the alternating decision-diagram checker returns equivalent in about 1 s, and a tampered copy (one T changed to Tdg) returns not_equivalent. Caveat: QCEC's ZX checker alone returns probably_not_equivalent for this circuit, because the TODD rewrite is not reachable with ZX rules. Under QCEC's default combined configuration that can stop at no_information before the DD checker finishes.
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Problem statement · revision r2
Lower the T-count of gf2^5_mult
The reference input reference_circuit is the canonical OpenQASM 2 circuit for a GF(2^5) multiplier (gf2^5_mult), from the Nam et al. (2018) arithmetic benchmark suite (Feynman copy, BSD-3). It acts on 15 qubits and contains 25 Toffoli gates and 4 CNOTs; expanded to Clifford+T with the standard 7-T Toffoli decomposition it has 175 T gates.
Deliver
One OpenQASM 2.0 circuit, bound to artifact role circuit, on exactly the same 15 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 154 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 115, and the pinned Skill explains the gate rules, local checking and known methods.
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