Finite Domain Constraint Satisfaction Using Quantum Computation

  • Authors:
  • Ola Angelsmark;Vilhelm Dahllöf;Peter Jonsson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • MFCS '02 Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We present a quantum algorithm for finite domain constraint solving, where the constraints have arity 2. It is complete and runs in O((驴d/2驴)n/2) time, where d is size of the domain of the variables and n the number of variables. For the case of d = 3we provide a method to obtain an upper time bound of O(8n/8)驴 O(1.2968n). Also for d = 5 the upper bound has been improved. Using this method in a slightly different way we can decide 3-colourability in O(1.2185n) time.