Parity is not in QAC0
What the paper claims, in its own words
Resolves Moore's parity conjecture in the measured-output model: constant-depth quantum circuits with arbitrary one-qubit gates, unbounded-arity Toffoli gates and polynomially many total qubits cannot compute parity with any fixed positive worst-case advantage. Ancillas start in zero, one output qubit is measured, and all other registers may be discarded. Xu–Li's reductions give the same bounded-error obstruction for strict majority.
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The original papers (2)
- Product-projection localization and the QAC0 parity lower bound (PDF, opens in a new tab) September 24, 2026 Formal proof listed
- Regular trajectories, pruning and quantum parity (PDF, opens in a new tab) September 24, 2026 Formal proof listed