On completely factoring any integer efficiently in a single run of an order finding algorithm
Quantum Physics
2024-06-07 v2 Cryptography and Security
Discrete Mathematics
Abstract
We show that given the order of a single element selected uniformly at random from , we can with very high probability, and for any integer , efficiently find the complete factorization of in polynomial time. This implies that a single run of the quantum part of Shor's factoring algorithm is usually sufficient. All prime factors of can then be recovered with negligible computational cost in a classical post-processing step. The classical algorithm required for this step is essentially due to Miller.
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@article{arxiv.2007.10044,
title = {On completely factoring any integer efficiently in a single run of an order finding algorithm},
author = {Martin Ekerå},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.10044},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
A minor issue in the proof of Lemma 2 has been corrected. Two references have furthermore been added, the introduction has been improved, and a number of other minor improvements have been made. No results are affected by this revision