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Complexity of Simon's problem in classical sense
November 03, 2022 ยท The Ethereal ยท ๐ arXiv.org
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Authors
Hans Zantema
arXiv ID
2211.01776
Category
cs.CC: Computational Complexity
Cross-listed
cs.DS
Citations
1
Venue
arXiv.org
Last Checked
6 months ago
Abstract
Simon's problem is a standard example of a problem that is exponential in classical sense, while it admits a polynomial solution in quantum computing. It is about a function $f$ for which it is given that a unique non-zero vector $s$ exists for which $f(x) = f(x \oplus s)$ for all $x$, where $\oplus$ is the exclusive or operator. The goal is to find $s$. The exponential lower bound for the classical sense assumes that $f$ only admits black box access. In this paper we investigate classical complexity when $f$ is given by a standard representation like a circuit. We focus on finding the vector space of all vectors $s$ for which $f(x) = f(x \oplus s)$ for all $x$, for any given $f$. Two main results are: (1) if $f$ is given by any circuit, then checking whether this vector space contains a non-zero element is NP-hard, and (2) if $f$ is given by any ordered BDD, then a basis of this vector space can be computed in polynomial time.
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