Peleg--Shpilka--Volk:
ProvedStabilizerRank.stabRank_hState_omega_linearThe stabilizer rank of the magic-state tensor power grows at least linearly: there are a constant and a threshold such that
This is the best unconditional lower bound known for an explicit state, improving an earlier bound of order . It is the current frontier of the mission's goal: the goal asks for a super-polynomial bound, and this result establishes the linear case. Improving it even to a super-linear bound is known to resolve a separate open question, namely the construction of a Boolean function computable in polynomial time that requires a super-linear number of summands in a decomposition into exponentials of quadratic forms over .
Formalization Note The asymptotic notation of the source is rendered explicitly as the existence of a positive constant and a threshold beyond which the inequality holds, with both quantified outermost. The source states the same bound for the alternative magic state ; only the case is formalized here.
import Definitions.Def_StabilizerRank
namespace StabilizerRank
theorem stabRank_hState_omega_linear :
∃ c : ℝ, 0 < c ∧ ∃ N : ℕ, ∀ n : ℕ, N ≤ n → c * (n : ℝ) ≤ (stabRank (hState n) : ℝ) := by sorry
end StabilizerRank
Confirmed by the mission captain (proposal self-audit).