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UNKNOWN as of 2026-07-27. Evaluating weight enumerators and finding minimum distance have strong hardness results, while the recent MathOverflow thread gives no reduction or algorithm for equality of the full polynomials.

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Originating problem: Complexity of equality for binary-code weight enumerators

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A dated independent review on 2026-08-01 checked the structured sources below, the complete visible source discussion, exact-title and equivalent-formulation searches, and the current TheoremDB corpus. The MathOverflow page and every visible answer and comment were checked on 2026-07-27. The page has no accepted resolution of the equality problem. Vyalyi's arXiv:cs/0304044 was checked for the complexity of evaluating weight enumerators. Evaluation hardness does not automatically imply hardness of comparing two succinctly represented polynomials. Vardy's minimum-distance hardness theorem was checked as a possible reduction source. The audit did not locate a published gadget converting minimum distance or a coefficient query into equality of two complete enumerators. A local corpus search for code weight enumerator equality, polynomial identity, and binary generator matrix found no duplicate.

A complete resolution must satisfy: Give a deterministic polynomial-time algorithm with proof, or prove hardness under a named standard reduction and place the problem in the strongest justified upper complexity class. A hardness proof must map every input to two explicitly constructible binary generator matrices and prove equality of their entire weight enumerators exactly when the source instance is a yes-instance.

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Verification source: mathoverflow.net ↗, Dataset references and independent 2026-08-01 status search.

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