On Converses to the Polynomial Method

Authors Jop Briët, Francisco Escudero Gutiérrez



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Jop Briët
  • CWI & QuSoft, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Francisco Escudero Gutiérrez
  • CWI & QuSoft, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Acknowledgements

We want to thank Srinivasan Arunachalam, Sander Gribling and Carlos Palazuelos for useful discussions. We also want to thank the referees of TQC for their helpful comments.

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Jop Briët and Francisco Escudero Gutiérrez. On Converses to the Polynomial Method. In 17th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 232, pp. 6:1-6:10, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.TQC.2022.6

Abstract

A surprising "converse to the polynomial method" of Aaronson et al. (CCC'16) shows that any bounded quadratic polynomial can be computed exactly in expectation by a 1-query algorithm up to a universal multiplicative factor related to the famous Grothendieck constant. A natural question posed there asks if bounded quartic polynomials can be approximated by 2-query quantum algorithms. Arunachalam, Palazuelos and the first author showed that there is no direct analogue of the result of Aaronson et al. in this case. We improve on this result in the following ways: First, we point out and fix a small error in the construction that has to do with a translation from cubic to quartic polynomials. Second, we give a completely explicit example based on techniques from additive combinatorics. Third, we show that the result still holds when we allow for a small additive error. For this, we apply an SDP characterization of Gribling and Laurent (QIP'19) for the completely-bounded approximate degree.

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  • Mathematics of computing → Functional analysis
  • Theory of computation → Quantum complexity theory
Keywords
  • Quantum query complexity
  • polynomial method
  • completely bounded polynomials

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