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Choiceless polynomial time with counting does not capture polynomial time

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We prove that choiceless polynomial time with counting does not capture polynomial time on unordered finite structures, confirming the noncapture conjecture of Blass, Gurevich and Shelah. A linear-consistency query over 𝔽 3 in a fixed binary vocabulary is decidable in polynomial time but not in the full counting formalism.

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