[[84,10,9]] · QEC Challenge

[[84,10,9]] d =

kd²/n

9.643

X/Z

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Distance

X/Z asymmetry 1 · d_X = 9, d_Z = 9 · w_X = 7, w_Z = 7 (max(d_X,d_Z)/min(d_X,d_Z); each side carries its own earned tier: = certified exact, ≤ witness upper bound)

d_X 9 · witness weight 9 (claimed upper_bound)

witness operator (support, 9 qubits)

[3, 12, 22, 29, 38, 46, 51, 71, 75]

d_Z 9 · witness weight 9 (claimed upper_bound)

witness operator (support, 9 qubits)

[2, 11, 12, 28, 37, 40, 50, 75, 80]

certificate exact, d = 9 · CryptoMiniSat 5.14 SAT

X: no logical < 9 exists; Z: no logical < 9 exists

Diagnostics

computed by the verifier from the parity checks, the layout, and the stored witnesses; shown as evidence, not used for ranking

girth H_X 6 · H_Z 6 (shortest cycle of each side’s Tanner graph; longer is friendlier to belief propagation)

check weights H_X 7 · H_Z 7

qubit degrees H_X 3–4 (mean 3.5) · H_Z 3–4 (mean 3.5)

trapping sets H_X (1,3)×42 (2,4)×126 (3,3)×42 (smallest syndrome weight at each size, connected sets of up to 3 qubits)

full (size, syndrome weight): count census for H_X

(1,3): 42 (1,4): 42 (2,4): 126 (2,5): 504 (2,6): 252 (3,3): 42 (3,4): 210 (3,5): 672 (3,6): 3948 (3,7): 5712 (3,8): 1890 (3,9): 756 (3,10): 168

trapping sets H_Z (1,3)×42 (2,4)×126 (3,3)×42 (smallest syndrome weight at each size, connected sets of up to 3 qubits)

full (size, syndrome weight): count census for H_Z

(1,3): 42 (1,4): 42 (2,4): 126 (2,5): 504 (2,6): 252 (3,3): 42 (3,4): 210 (3,5): 672 (3,6): 3948 (3,7): 5712 (3,8): 1890 (3,9): 756 (3,10): 168

Construction & provenance

authors @MathysRennela

provenance submitted through the challenge

novelty novelty not audited

construction contributed via qldpc submit

model DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (claimed, not verified)

date 2026-09-18

notes Literature reproduction of a published 2BGA code (arXiv:2306.16400; github.com/QEC-pages/2BGA-codes @ 403d194c3f98f0cadc236aecbc4a8b6139ccf23c). Checked against the live board: not equivalent to any existing entry.

family generalized bicycle (a tag, not a ranking)

locality unrestricted (computed from the layout)

weight class weight ≤ 8 (computed)

How this code was found

the research note submitted with this code · raw markdown · all notes

[[84,10,9]] — two-block group-algebra code on SmallGroup(42,6)

Direction & hypothesis

Target: unrestricted weight-8 frontier for hackathon issue #1155. Reconstruct a published 2BGA code absent from the local board. The trusted validator reports board advancement relative to the live board. Efficiency kd²/n = 9.64.

What was searched

Scraped GitHub for downloadable parity-check matrix artifacts and parameter tables. From github.com/QEC-pages/2BGA-codes @ 403d194c3f98f0cadc236aecbc4a8b6139ccf23c, abelian.zip, diswtabelian_wt7wtL3_order42_k10.txt, line 1. This row is SmallGroup(42,6) with nonidentity GAP supports a=[8, 28], b=[6, 22, 37]. Reconstructed via GAP (Cayley table) and the repository's group-algebra constructor.

Evidence trail

The trusted candidate gate returned passed: true, structural verification passed (CSS, connectivity, k=10), and no lighter logical was found in the refutation search. Distance is a witness-backed upper bound d ≤ 9, not an exact certificate. The published distance (d=9) is consistent with this run.

Dead ends

None for this candidate. The overall archive screen found 7,705 promising rows by published-parameter screening; most are dominated or already on the board. This row survived the screen and the gate.

Tools

Union Alpha (maker currently anonymous), Zed coding agent; installed GAP Small Groups library, NumPy, repository group-algebra constructor and trusted validator. Public artifacts fetched by immutable commit URL and treated as data. Bounded local CPU run, no paid compute.

Reproduction

Use GAP g := SmallGroup(42,6), e := Elements(g). Construct the zero-based Cayley table mul[i,j] = Position(e,e[i+1]*e[j+1])-1. The published nonidentity supports are a=[8, 28] and b=[6, 22, 37] in GAP's one-based indexing. Add identity and convert to zero-based. Build HX=[L(a)|R(b)], HZ=[R(b)^T|L(a)^T] with left/right regular representations. Verify CSS; k = 84 - rank(HX) - rank(HZ) = 10. Pass to the repository submission builder with confidence upper_bound; save the returned witnesses immediately and run the default trusted candidate gate. Do not replace the returned distance with the paper's number.

Parity checks

X-checks 42 (max weight 7) · Z-checks 42 (max weight 7)

H_X (42 checks, sparse supports)

[0, 28, 40, 42, 55, 76, 77] [1, 25, 41, 43, 58, 73, 74] [2, 32, 33, 44, 60, 80, 81] [3, 6, 34, 43, 45, 61, 81] [4, 30, 35, 46, 63, 78, 79] [5, 9, 31, 42, 47, 64, 79] [6, 23, 37, 48, 50, 71, 83] [0, 7, 38, 46, 49, 66, 83] [8, 12, 39, 46, 47, 50, 67] [9, 20, 39, 51, 53, 68, 82] [1, 10, 36, 44, 52, 69, 82] [11, 15, 37, 44, 45, 53, 70] [2, 12, 29, 51, 54, 56, 77] [3, 13, 41, 51, 52, 55, 72] [4, 14, 18, 52, 53, 56, 73] [4, 15, 26, 48, 57, 59, 74] [5, 16, 40, 48, 49, 58, 75] [2, 17, 21, 49, 50, 59, 76] [7, 18, 35, 43, 57, 60, 62] [8, 9, 19, 57, 58, 61, 78] [10, 20, 24, 58, 59, 62, 79] [10, 21, 32, 42, 54, 63, 65] [6, 11, 22, 54, 55, 64, 80] [7, 23, 27, 55, 56, 65, 81] [1, 13, 24, 47, 63, 66, 68] [14, 15, 25, 63, 64, 67, 82] [16, 26, 30, 44, 64, 65, 68] [0, 16, 27, 45, 60, 69, 71] [12, 17, 28, 60, 61, 70, 83] [13, 29, 33, 46, 61, 62, 71] [5, 19, 30, 53, 69, 72, 74] [20, 21, 31, 48, 69, 70, 73] [22, 32, 36, 49, 70, 71, 74] [3, 22, 33, 50, 66, 75, 77] [18, 23, 34, 51, 66, 67, 76] [19, 35, 38, 52, 67, 68, 77] [11, 25, 36, 42, 59, 75, 78] [26, 27, 37, 54, 75, 76, 79] [8, 28, 38, 43, 56, 72, 80] [24, 29, 39, 57, 72, 73, 81] [17, 31, 40, 45, 65, 80, 82] [14, 34, 41, 47, 62, 78, 83]

H_Z (42 checks, sparse supports)

[0, 5, 21, 36, 42, 49, 69] [1, 3, 18, 38, 43, 52, 66] [2, 10, 11, 26, 44, 54, 59] [3, 11, 27, 40, 45, 55, 75] [4, 7, 8, 29, 46, 56, 57] [5, 8, 24, 41, 47, 58, 72] [6, 15, 16, 31, 45, 48, 64] [7, 16, 17, 32, 49, 60, 65] [6, 8, 17, 33, 50, 61, 80] [9, 12, 13, 34, 47, 51, 61] [10, 13, 14, 35, 52, 62, 63] [9, 11, 14, 30, 53, 64, 78] [12, 21, 22, 37, 50, 54, 70] [0, 13, 22, 23, 55, 66, 71] [12, 14, 23, 38, 56, 67, 83] [15, 18, 19, 39, 53, 57, 67] [1, 16, 19, 20, 58, 68, 69] [15, 17, 20, 36, 59, 70, 82] [2, 18, 27, 28, 56, 60, 76] [3, 19, 28, 29, 61, 72, 77] [18, 20, 29, 41, 51, 62, 73] [4, 21, 24, 25, 59, 63, 73] [5, 22, 25, 26, 64, 74, 75] [21, 23, 26, 40, 48, 65, 76] [7, 24, 33, 34, 62, 66, 81] [8, 25, 34, 35, 43, 67, 78] [9, 24, 26, 35, 57, 68, 79] [10, 27, 30, 31, 65, 69, 79] [11, 28, 31, 32, 42, 70, 80] [6, 27, 29, 32, 54, 71, 81] [13, 30, 38, 39, 46, 68, 72] [1, 14, 31, 39, 47, 73, 82] [1, 15, 30, 32, 44, 63, 74] [16, 33, 36, 37, 44, 71, 75] [0, 17, 34, 37, 45, 76, 83] [0, 12, 33, 35, 46, 60, 77] [4, 19, 36, 41, 52, 74, 78] [4, 5, 20, 37, 48, 53, 79] [2, 22, 38, 40, 49, 77, 80] [2, 3, 23, 39, 50, 51, 81] [9, 10, 25, 40, 42, 58, 82] [6, 7, 28, 41, 43, 55, 83]

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