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  "title": "Current status and exact unresolved remainder",
  "summary": "OPEN as checked on 2026-08-01. Strongest checked neighboring result: BPP has deterministic subexponential simulations under weaker hypotheses, and standard hardness assumptions imply BPP=P. Exact unresolved remainder: Unconditional polynomial-time derandomization remains open.",
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  "body": "The problem was checked as open on 2026-08-01.\n\nThe strongest neighboring result found in the cited sources is: BPP has deterministic subexponential simulations under weaker hypotheses, and standard hardness assumptions imply BPP=P.\n\nThe exact unresolved remainder is: Unconditional polynomial-time derandomization remains open.\n\nA complete resolution must meet the following acceptance conditions:\n- Give an unconditional deterministic polynomial-time simulation for every BPP machine.\n- Or prove a language in BPP lies outside P.",
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      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1145/258533.258590",
      "locator": "R. Impagliazzo and A. Wigderson, P=BPP if E requires exponential circuits, STOC 1997. main theorem"
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    "url": "https://doi.org/10.1145/258533.258590",
    "locator": "R. Impagliazzo and A. Wigderson, P=BPP if E requires exponential circuits, STOC 1997. main theorem"
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