Quantum automata and algebraic groups

  • Authors:
  • Harm Derksen;Emmanuel Jeandel;Pascal Koiran

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States;Laboratoire de lInformatique du Parallélisme, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 69364, France;Laboratoire de lInformatique du Parallélisme, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 69364, France

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We show that several problems which are known to be undecidable for probabilistic automata become decidable for quantum finite automata. Our main tool is an algebraic result of independent interest: we give an algorithm which, given a finite number of invertible matrices, computes the Zariski closure of the group generated by these matrices.