An improved claw finding algorithm using quantum walk

  • Authors:
  • Seiichiro Tani

  • Affiliations:
  • Quantum Computation and Information Project, ERATO-SORST, JST and NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation

  • Venue:
  • MFCS'07 Proceedings of the 32nd international conference on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The claw finding problem has been studied in terms of query complexity as one of the problems closely connected to cryptography. For given two functions, f and g, as an oracle which have domains of size N and M (N ≤ M), respectively, and the same range, the goal of the problem is to find x and y such that f(x) = g(y). This paper describes a quantum-walk-based algorithm that solves this problem; it improves the previous upper bounds. Our algorithm can be generalized to find a claw of k functions for any constant integer k 1, where the domains of the functions may have different size.