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Quantum Lower Bound for Graph Collision Implies Lower Bound for Triangle Detection

Quantum Physics 2015-07-15 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We show that an improvement to the best known quantum lower bound for GRAPH-COLLISION problem implies an improvement to the best known lower bound for TRIANGLE problem in the quantum query complexity model. In GRAPH-COLLISION we are given free access to a graph (V,E)(V,E) and access to a function f:V{0,1}f:V\rightarrow \{0,1\} as a black box. We are asked to determine if there exist (u,v)E(u,v) \in E, such that f(u)=f(v)=1f(u)=f(v)=1. In TRIANGLE we have a black box access to an adjacency matrix of a graph and we have to determine if the graph contains a triangle. For both of these problems the known lower bounds are trivial (Ω(n)\Omega(\sqrt{n}) and Ω(n)\Omega(n), respectively) and there is no known matching upper bound.

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@article{arxiv.1507.03885,
  title  = {Quantum Lower Bound for Graph Collision Implies Lower Bound for Triangle Detection},
  author = {Kaspars Balodis and Jānis Iraids},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.03885},
  year   = {2015}
}
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