Quantum lower bound for recursive Fourier sampling

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-177
Author(s):  
S. Aaronson
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2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-174
Author(s):  
S. Aaronson

We revisit the oft-neglected `recursive Fourier sampling' (RFS) problem, introduced by Bernstein and Vazirani to prove an oracle separation between BPP and BQP. We show that the known quantum algorithm for RFS is essentially optimal, despite its seemingly wasteful need to uncompute information. This implies that, to place \mathsf{BQP} outside of PH[\log] relative to an oracle, one would need to go outside the RFS framework. Our proof argues that, given any variant of RFS, either the adversary method of Ambainis yields a good quantum lower bound, or else there is an efficient classical algorithm. This technique may be of independent interest.


Quantum ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Montanaro

We show that any classical two-way communication protocol with shared randomness that can approximately simulate the result of applying an arbitrary measurement (held by one party) to a quantum state of n qubits (held by another), up to constant accuracy, must transmit at least Ω(2n) bits. This lower bound is optimal and matches the complexity of a simple protocol based on discretisation using an ϵ-net. The proof is based on a lower bound on the classical communication complexity of a distributed variant of the Fourier sampling problem. We obtain two optimal quantum-classical separations as easy corollaries. First, a sampling problem which can be solved with one quantum query to the input, but which requires Ω(N) classical queries for an input of size N. Second, a nonlocal task which can be solved using n Bell pairs, but for which any approximate classical solution must communicate Ω(2n) bits.


2019 ◽  
Vol 485 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-144
Author(s):  
A. A. Zevin

Solutions x(t) of the Lipschitz equation x = f(x) with an arbitrary vector norm are considered. It is proved that the sharp lower bound for the distances between successive extremums of xk(t) equals π/L where L is the Lipschitz constant. For non-constant periodic solutions, the lower bound for the periods is 2π/L. These estimates are achieved for norms that are invariant with respect to permutation of the indices.


10.37236/1188 ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Exoo

For $k \geq 5$, we establish new lower bounds on the Schur numbers $S(k)$ and on the k-color Ramsey numbers of $K_3$.


10.37236/1748 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nagi H. Nahas

The best lower bound known on the crossing number of the complete bipartite graph is : $$cr(K_{m,n}) \geq (1/5)(m)(m-1)\lfloor n/2 \rfloor \lfloor(n-1)/2\rfloor$$ In this paper we prove that: $$cr(K_{m,n}) \geq (1/5)m(m-1)\lfloor n/2 \rfloor \lfloor (n-1)/2 \rfloor + 9.9 \times 10^{-6} m^2n^2$$ for sufficiently large $m$ and $n$.


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