[[98,12,9]] · QEC Challenge

[[98,12,9]] d =

kd²/n

9.918

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)

[12, 34, 46, 54, 65, 66, 69, 72, 90]

d_Z 9 · witness weight 9 (claimed upper_bound)

witness operator (support, 9 qubits)

[7, 25, 28, 31, 32, 43, 51, 63, 85]

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)×49 (2,4)×147 (3,3)×49 (smallest syndrome weight at each size, connected sets of up to 3 qubits)

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

(1,3): 49 (1,4): 49 (2,4): 147 (2,5): 588 (2,6): 294 (3,3): 49 (3,4): 147 (3,5): 441 (3,6): 4851 (3,7): 7693 (3,8): 2352 (3,9): 882 (3,10): 196

trapping sets H_Z (1,3)×49 (2,4)×147 (3,3)×49 (smallest syndrome weight at each size, connected sets of up to 3 qubits)

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

(1,3): 49 (1,4): 49 (2,4): 147 (2,5): 588 (2,6): 294 (3,3): 49 (3,4): 147 (3,5): 441 (3,6): 4851 (3,7): 7693 (3,8): 2352 (3,9): 882 (3,10): 196

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

[[98,12,9]] — two-block group-algebra code on SmallGroup(49,2)

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 = 9.92.

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_order49_k12.txt, line 1. This row is SmallGroup(49,2) with nonidentity GAP supports a=[2, 3], b=[4, 33, 44]. 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=12), 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(49,2), 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=[2, 3] and b=[4, 33, 44] 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 = 98 - rank(HX) - rank(HZ) = 12. 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 49 (max weight 7) · Z-checks 49 (max weight 7)

H_X (49 checks, sparse supports)

[0, 21, 27, 49, 62, 64, 78] [0, 1, 33, 50, 67, 70, 83] [0, 2, 28, 51, 68, 71, 84] [1, 3, 38, 49, 52, 54, 73] [1, 2, 4, 53, 74, 77, 88] [2, 5, 34, 54, 75, 78, 89] [3, 6, 42, 50, 55, 57, 79] [3, 4, 7, 51, 56, 58, 80] [4, 5, 8, 57, 81, 83, 92] [5, 9, 39, 58, 82, 84, 93] [6, 10, 45, 52, 59, 61, 84] [6, 7, 11, 53, 60, 62, 85] [7, 8, 12, 54, 61, 63, 86] [8, 9, 13, 62, 87, 88, 95] [9, 14, 43, 50, 63, 89, 96] [10, 15, 47, 55, 64, 66, 88] [10, 11, 16, 56, 65, 67, 89] [11, 12, 17, 57, 66, 68, 90] [12, 13, 18, 58, 67, 69, 91] [13, 14, 19, 52, 68, 92, 97] [14, 20, 46, 53, 64, 69, 93] [15, 21, 48, 58, 59, 70, 72] [15, 16, 22, 60, 71, 73, 92] [16, 17, 23, 61, 72, 74, 93] [17, 18, 24, 62, 73, 75, 94] [18, 19, 25, 55, 63, 74, 76] [19, 20, 26, 56, 70, 75, 95] [20, 27, 48, 57, 71, 76, 96] [21, 22, 28, 63, 65, 77, 79] [22, 23, 29, 66, 78, 80, 95] [23, 24, 30, 67, 79, 81, 96] [24, 25, 31, 59, 68, 80, 82] [25, 26, 32, 49, 60, 69, 81] [26, 27, 33, 61, 77, 82, 97] [28, 29, 34, 69, 72, 83, 85] [29, 30, 35, 73, 84, 86, 97] [30, 31, 36, 64, 74, 85, 87] [31, 32, 37, 50, 65, 75, 86] [32, 33, 38, 51, 66, 76, 87] [34, 35, 39, 76, 79, 88, 90] [35, 36, 40, 70, 80, 89, 91] [36, 37, 41, 52, 71, 81, 90] [37, 38, 42, 53, 72, 82, 91] [39, 40, 43, 49, 85, 92, 94] [40, 41, 44, 55, 77, 86, 93] [41, 42, 45, 56, 78, 87, 94] [43, 44, 46, 51, 59, 90, 95] [44, 45, 47, 60, 83, 91, 96] [46, 47, 48, 54, 65, 94, 97]

H_Z (49 checks, sparse supports)

[0, 3, 32, 43, 49, 50, 51] [1, 6, 14, 37, 50, 52, 53] [2, 7, 38, 46, 51, 53, 54] [3, 10, 19, 41, 52, 55, 56] [4, 11, 20, 42, 53, 56, 57] [3, 5, 12, 48, 54, 57, 58] [6, 15, 25, 44, 55, 59, 60] [7, 16, 26, 45, 56, 60, 61] [6, 8, 17, 27, 57, 61, 62] [7, 9, 18, 21, 58, 62, 63] [10, 21, 31, 46, 59, 64, 65] [11, 22, 32, 47, 60, 65, 66] [10, 12, 23, 33, 61, 66, 67] [0, 11, 13, 24, 62, 67, 68] [12, 14, 25, 28, 63, 68, 69] [0, 15, 20, 36, 64, 70, 71] [16, 28, 37, 48, 65, 71, 72] [15, 17, 29, 38, 66, 72, 73] [1, 16, 18, 30, 67, 73, 74] [2, 17, 19, 31, 68, 74, 75] [18, 20, 32, 34, 69, 75, 76] [1, 21, 26, 40, 49, 70, 77] [2, 22, 27, 41, 71, 77, 78] [21, 23, 34, 42, 72, 78, 79] [3, 22, 24, 35, 73, 79, 80] [4, 23, 25, 36, 74, 80, 81] [5, 24, 26, 37, 75, 81, 82] [25, 27, 38, 39, 49, 76, 82] [4, 28, 33, 44, 51, 77, 83] [0, 5, 29, 45, 78, 83, 84] [6, 28, 30, 39, 79, 84, 85] [7, 29, 31, 40, 80, 85, 86] [8, 30, 32, 41, 81, 86, 87] [9, 31, 33, 42, 50, 82, 87] [1, 8, 34, 47, 54, 83, 88] [2, 9, 10, 35, 84, 88, 89] [11, 34, 36, 43, 85, 89, 90] [12, 35, 37, 44, 86, 90, 91] [13, 36, 38, 45, 52, 87, 91] [4, 13, 15, 39, 58, 88, 92] [5, 14, 16, 40, 89, 92, 93] [17, 39, 41, 46, 90, 93, 94] [18, 40, 42, 47, 55, 91, 94] [8, 19, 22, 43, 63, 92, 95] [9, 20, 23, 44, 93, 95, 96] [24, 43, 45, 48, 59, 94, 96] [13, 26, 29, 46, 69, 95, 97] [14, 27, 30, 47, 64, 96, 97] [19, 33, 35, 48, 70, 76, 97]

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