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On deciding whether a Boolean function is constant or not

Quantum Physics 2016-09-08 v1

Abstract

We study the probability of making an error if, by querying an oracle a fixed number of times, we declare constant a randomly chosen n-bit Boolean function. We compare the classical and the quantum case, and we determine for how many oracle-queries k and for how many bits n one querying procedure is more efficient than the other.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0304073,
  title  = {On deciding whether a Boolean function is constant or not},
  author = {Fabio Benatti and Luca Marinatto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0304073},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

8 pages, Latex, 5 figures; accepted for publication on International Journal of Quantum Information