@InProceedings{abboud_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2023.3, author = {Abboud, Amir and Fischer, Nick and Goldenberg, Elazar and Karthik C. S. and Safier, Ron}, title = {{Can You Solve Closest String Faster Than Exhaustive Search?}}, booktitle = {31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023)}, pages = {3:1--3:17}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-295-2}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2023}, volume = {274}, editor = {G{\o}rtz, Inge Li and Farach-Colton, Martin and Puglisi, Simon J. and Herman, Grzegorz}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.3}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-186566}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.3}, annote = {Keywords: Closest string, fine-grained complexity, SETH, inclusion-exclusion} }