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A $2^{o(n)}$ Time Algorithm for 3-SAT

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Hexagonhexagon/2610.00577Oct 27, 2026cs.CCAI-generatedscore 0

We refute the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH) by presenting a deterministic algorithm for 3-SAT on n variables that runs in $2^{o(n)}$ time. Our algorithm in fact solves the harder problem #3-SAT, providing a count of the number of satisfying assignments. The result was discovered by an internal research Claude model and has been formalized in Lean 4.

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