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Quantum measurements are slow, while classical processors are fast, yet existing hybrid protocols never exploit this asymmetry. In this work, we propose an alternative formulation of classical estimators as online algorithms that are…

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We explore the possibility of applying the framework of frequent pattern mining to a class of continuous objects appearing in nature, namely knots. We introduce the frequent knot mining problem and present a solution. The key observation is…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Floris Geerts

We prove that deciding if a diagram of the unknot can be untangled using at most $k$ Riedemeister moves (where $k$ is part of the input) is NP-hard. We also prove that several natural questions regarding links in the $3$-sphere are NP-hard,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Arnaud de Mesmay , Yo'av Rieck , Eric Sedgwick , Martin Tancer

Given a group endowed with a Z/2-valued morphism we associate a Gauss diagram theory, and show that for a particular choice of the group these diagrams encode faithfully virtual knots on a given arbitrary surface. This theory contains all…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-03-17 Arnaud Mortier

The classical PCP theorem is arguably the most important achievement of classical complexity theory in the past quarter century. In recent years, researchers in quantum computational complexity have tried to identify approaches and develop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Dorit Aharonov , Itai Arad , Thomas Vidick

Joyce has shown that the fundamental quandle of a classical knot can be derived from consideration of the fundamental group and the peripheral structure of the knot, and also that the group and much of the peripheral structure can be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-05-26 Blake Winter

Using Gauss diagrams, one can define the virtual bridge number ${\rm vb}(K)$ and the welded bridge number ${\rm wb}(K),$ invariants of virtual and welded knots with ${\rm wb}(K) \leq {\rm vb}(K).$ If $K$ is a classical knot, Chernov and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-04-17 Hans U. Boden , Anne Isabel Gaudreau

Given the extensive application of classical random walks to classical algorithms in a variety of fields, their quantum analogue in quantum walks is expected to provide a fruitful source of quantum algorithms. So far, however, such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-26 B. L. Douglas , J. B. Wang

We discuss classical and quantum algorithms for solvability testing and finding integer solutions x,y of equations of the form af^x + bg^y = c over finite fields GF(q). A quantum algorithm with time complexity q^(3/8) (log q)^O(1) is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-08 Wim van Dam , Igor E. Shparlinski

In \cite{Kim} it is shown that knots in $S_{g} \times S^{1}$ can be presented by virtual diagrams with a decoration, so called, {\em double lines}. In this paper, we study the essential diagram for each knot in $S_{g} \times S^{1}$, which…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Seongjeong Kim

In classical statistical learning theory, one of the most well studied problems is that of binary classification. The information-theoretic sample complexity of this task is tightly characterized by the Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-10 Matthias C. Caro

This note shows how quantum entanglement may be simulated in classical computing. The simulated entanglement protocol is implemented using oblivious transfer in the simplest case and other many-to-one mappings in more general cases. For the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-11 Subhash Kak

Embedding of a knowledge graph(KG) entities and relations in the form of vectors is an important aspect for the manipulation of the KG database for several downstream tasks, such as link prediction, knowledge graph completion, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Pulak Ranjan Giri , Mori Kurokawa , Kazuhiro Saito

We obtain the strongest separation between quantum and classical query complexity known to date -- specifically, we define a black-box problem that requires exponentially many queries in the classical bounded-error case, but can be solved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Niel de Beaudrap , Richard Cleve , John Watrous

For a knot K the cube number is a knot invariant defined to be the smallest n for which there is a cube diagram of size n for K. We will show that the cube number detects chirality in all cases computed thus far, and distinguishes certain…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-06-25 Ben McCarty

The motivation for this work is to construct a map from classical knots to virtual ones. What we get in the paper is a series of maps from knots in the full torus (thickened torus) to flat-virtual knots. We give definition of flat-virtual…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-21 V. O. Manturov , I. M. Nikonov

The fundamental problem of knot theory is to know whether two knots are equivalent or not. As a tool to prove that two knots are different, mathematicians have developed various invariants. Knots invariants are just functions that can be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Leandro Vendramin

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are used mainly to treat problems with many images characteristic of Deep Learning. In this work, we propose a hybrid image classification model to take advantage of quantum and classical computing. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-10 Parfait Atchade-Adelomou , Guillermo Alonso-Linaje

Knot diagrams are among the most common visual tools in topology. Computer programs now make it possible to draw, manipulate and render them digitally, which proves to be useful in knot theory teaching and research. Still, an openly…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Lennart Finke , Edmund Weitz

We present a new, practical algorithm to test whether a knot complement contains a closed essential surface. This property has important theoretical and algorithmic consequences; however, systematically testing it has until now been…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-08-15 Benjamin A. Burton , Alexander Coward , Stephan Tillmann