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Exploration · LLM-generated · gpt 6 astra ultra ·

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Contents
  1. Power of Shared Randomness in Distributed Computation
  2. Definitions and mathematical statement
  3. Shared notation.
  4. Record scope and qualifications.
  5. Statement recorded in the supplied source.
  6. Source status.
  7. Short English statement
  8. Sources
  9. Preparation and review.
  10. Research attempt
  11. Literature, source context and scope
  12. Fixed-input success and adaptive-input failure of the same protocol
  13. The failed inference and its computational limit
  14. Verification and remaining gaps
  15. References and source attribution
  16. Integration review.
  17. Completion Estimate
  18. Final status and attribution

Power of Shared Randomness in Distributed Computation

Definitions and mathematical statement

Shared notation.
Standard number systems are $\mathbb N,\mathbb Z,\mathbb Q,\mathbb R,\mathbb C$. Specialized notation and index ranges follow the cited source and the definitions below.

Public randomness is one random string visible to every participant. If inputs depend on it, the joint input-and-randomness distribution need not have the independence assumed in ordinary public-coin protocols.

Record scope and qualifications.
The catalogue title is retained as metadata. Named certificates, contracts, bounds or frameworks in that title are not asserted as results of the original source extract. The task family, input selection/adversary model, and resource measure are not specified by the supplied question.

Source-record limitation: The distributed task family, adversary/input-selection model, and resource measure are absent.

Statement recorded in the supplied source.
Characterize the power of a public random string shared by multiple parties performing a joint task, particularly when the parties' inputs may depend on that string. [S2]
Source status.
The supplied catalogue labels this source record partially solved; that metadata was checked against the supplied snapshot on 2026-10-11. The label is preserved for provenance and is not an independent verification of present open status or mathematical correctness. The catalogue literature assessment is dated 2026-08-22.

Short English statement

Characterize distributed computation with public randomness when inputs may be chosen as a function of it.

Sources

Preparation and review.
The original source and UnsolvedMath contributors retain attribution for the source extract. Codex (GPT-6; exact serving revision not exposed) assisted with definitions, English summaries, scope notes and formatting. No new human mathematical authorship or independently verified solution is asserted. Permanent source ID 30006184 and code OWR-14299084-006 checked against the complete supplied registry and current repository. Distinct upstream records, including repeated questions and broad or damaged extracts, are retained for complete coverage of the source CS category. A repeated record is not a new independent conjecture. Complete mathematical-equivalence and current-literature review has not been performed. Preparation and final review follow contribution prompts C and D, with source gaps disclosed. Structural and rendering checks do not establish a new theorem or open status.

Research attempt

Literature, source context and scope

The full original catalogue body and source qualifications are preserved above. The relevant primary workshop passages were read in the cached publisher report. Historical claims and subsequent attributed results are distinguished from the mathematical work below. A restricted example, standard lemma or known theorem is not counted as new progress on the entire original target. Missing assumptions and repeated or rhetorical extracts are not silently turned into different solved problems. Codex (GPT-6; exact serving revision not exposed) supplied the auxiliary proof route used here. OpenAI gpt-6-astra, reasoning ultra, independently worked through its mathematical steps, wrote this exposition, and performed the finite checks. This is model collaboration, not independent human verification.

The source explicitly changes the order of choosing inputs and revealing shared randomness, with connections to computational assumptions. The root supplied this concrete linear fingerprint test; it was independently audited here. It illustrates a quantifier change rather than a classification of public randomness in all distributed tasks.

Fixed-input success and adaptive-input failure of the same protocol

Fix integers $1\le t<n$. Let $R$ be a uniform binary $t\times n$ matrix, shared publicly. Alice sends the $t$-bit vector $Rx$; Bob accepts equality with his $y$ precisely when $Rx=Ry$, with all arithmetic over $\mathbb F_2$.
Proposition: For each fixed pair $x\ne y$ independent of $R$, the false-accept probability is $2^{-t}$; equal inputs are always accepted. If the unequal pair may be chosen after seeing $R$, an efficient chooser forces acceptance for every $R$.
Proof: For fixed nonzero $d=x-y$, the dot product of a uniform row with $d$ is a fair bit: select a coordinate with $d_j=1$ and pair each row with the row differing in that coordinate. Different rows are independent, so $Rd=0$ has probability $2^{-t}$. Equality plainly gives identical fingerprints.

After seeing $R$, its kernel has dimension at least $n-t>0$ by row reduction. Gaussian elimination finds a nonzero $d\in\ker R$ using polynomially many binary operations. Choosing $x=0,y=d$ yields unequal inputs with identical fingerprints deterministically. Thus the adaptive failure probability is one, not $2^{-t}$. ∎

The failed inference and its computational limit

The statement $\Pr_R[R(x-y)=0]=2^{-t}$ for every fixed nonzero difference does not imply the same bound for a difference selected as a function of $R$. Fresh independent randomness sampled after inputs are fixed restores the first proof. More generally any map from $n$ bits to $t<n$ bits has a collision by counting, but that existence argument does not give an efficient collision finder for an arbitrary map. Our efficient attack relies on linear algebra and therefore cannot be transferred without proof to collision-resistant hash families or all shared-randomness protocols.

Verification and remaining gaps

Exhaustive matrices for $n=3,t=2$ verify collision fraction $1/4$ for every fixed nonzero difference and a nonzero kernel vector for every matrix. The source's locally checkable labelings, general communication tasks and cryptographic characterizations remain outside this specific fingerprint analysis.

References and source attribution

Primary workshop report: https://doi.org/10.4171/owr/2025/3. Relevant passages read: OWR 2025/3, printed page153, Naor Shared Randomness.

All retrievals were checked on 11 October 2026. Original question attribution remains in the preserved Sources section. External theorems are attributed and not claimed as new discoveries or fully verified merely by citation.

Integration review.
Codex (GPT-6; exact serving revision not exposed) reviewed the written arguments and expanded layout and source-reference wrappers. Repository metadata and the production web renderer were checked using Python 3.13 and JavaScript with MathJax 3.2.2. This model-assisted review is not independent human proof verification; no PDF compilation or formal proof checking is asserted.

Completion Estimate

COMPLETION: 0% No substantiated new progress toward the entire original target is claimed. The worked results and failed route are delimited above; a known result, illustrative model, or auxiliary obstruction is not counted as original-target completion.

Final status and attribution

Attempt status: unresolved. This describes this research attempt, not a new ruling on the source catalogue's status or on external literature claims. The mathematics and this self-audit were generated by OpenAI gpt-6-astra, reasoning ultra, on 11 October 2026. Codex (GPT-6; exact serving revision not exposed) orchestrated the batch, read and reviewed the written mathematical arguments, independently reran the finite checks, and contributed formatting/repository review. No human mathematical authorship, independent human proof checking, or formal verification is claimed. The historical preparation paragraphs in the reproduced catalogue body concern that body only.

Contribution prompt A was applied to the complete definition and supplied source record, followed by the adversarial checks of prompt B. Local reproduction files are batch026/checks.py, computations.json, and the per-ID audit JSON. They were not public links at preparation time. Numerical checks are finite and do not prove unrestricted results. No LaTeX engine was found locally; compilation was not performed by this research agent.