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标题：How Hard Is Deciding Trivial Versus Nontrivial in the Dihedral Coset Problem?
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作者：Nai-Hui Chia ; Sean Hallgren
期刊名称：LIPIcs : Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics
电子版ISSN：1868-8969
出版年度：2016
卷号：61
页码：6:1-6:16
DOI：10.4230/LIPIcs.TQC.2016.6
出版社：Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik
摘要：We study the hardness of the dihedral hidden subgroup problem. It is known that lattice problems reduce to it, and that it reduces to random subset sum with density > 1 and also to quantum sampling subset sum solutions. We examine a decision version of the problem where the question asks whether the hidden subgroup is trivial or order two. The decision problem essentially asks if a given vector is in the span of all coset states. We approach this by first computing an explicit basis for the coset space and the perpendicular space. We then look at the consequences of having efficient unitaries that use this basis. We show that if a unitary maps the basis to the standard basis in any way, then that unitary can be used to solve random subset sum with constant density >1. We also show that if a unitary can exactly decide membership in the coset subspace, then the collision problem for subset sum can be solved for density >1 but approaching 1 as the problem size increases. This strengthens the previous hardness result that implementing the optimal POVM in a specific way is as hard as quantum sampling subset sum solutions.
关键词：Quantum algorithms; hidden subgroup problem; random subset sum problem