[yacin]

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

[mometsi]

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...

[chikere232]

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

[writebetterc]

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

[Ar-Curunir]

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