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Optimal Quantum Algorithm for Polynomial Interpolation

Authors Andrew M. Childs, Wim van Dam, Shih-Han Hung, Igor E. Shparlinski

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  • Quantum algorithms
  • query complexity
  • polynomial interpolation
  • finite fields

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Abstract

We consider the number of quantum queries required to determine the coefficients of a degree-d polynomial over F_q. A lower bound shown independently by Kane and Kutin and by Meyer and Pommersheim shows that d/2 + 1/2 quantum queries are needed to solve this problem with bounded error, whereas an algorithm of Boneh and Zhandry shows that d quantum queries are sufficient. We show that the lower bound is achievable: d/2 + 1/2 quantum queries suffice to determine the polynomial with bounded error. Furthermore, we show that d/2 + 1 queries suffice to achieve probability approaching 1 for large q. These upper bounds improve results of Boneh and Zhandry on the insecurity of cryptographic protocols against quantum attacks. We also show that our algorithm’s success probability as a function of the number of queries is precisely optimal. Furthermore, the algorithm can be implemented with gate complexity poly(log(q)) with negligible decrease in the success probability. We end with a conjecture about the quantum query complexity of multivariate polynomial interpolation.

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Andrew M. Childs, Wim van Dam, Shih-Han Hung, and Igor E. Shparlinski. Optimal Quantum Algorithm for Polynomial Interpolation. In 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 55, pp. 16:1-16:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.16

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Andrew M. Childs
Wim van Dam
Shih-Han Hung
Igor E. Shparlinski

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