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it's common in math/cs theory papers to have the order of authors be alphabetical rather than in descending order of contribution.

I wonder if there's a significant nominative determinism effect--

One might expect some of the most prominent people in math and cs theory to have names like Aaronson and Baez...

It would be most fair to hash the names first, especially for this paper

I suppose then the next question will be which author gets to choose the hash function..

They all pick one, results are XORred together.

Good, but that can also be noted in a subtitle right below the authors (I've seen this in papers myself!)

The paper is not targeted at laymen, but other members of the research community, who are aware of the author ordering convention.