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We introduce an explicit construction for a key distribution protocol in the Quantum Computational Timelock (QCT) security model, where one assumes that computationally secure encryption may only be broken after a time much longer than the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Francesco Mazzoncini , Balthazar Bauer , Peter Brown , Romain Alléaume

We propose a general way of constructing zero-knowledge authentication schemes from actions of a semigroup on a set, without exploiting any specific algebraic properties of the set acted upon. Then we give several concrete realizations of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-02-13 Dima Grigoriev , Vladimir Shpilrain

Over the past decade, physicists have developed deep but non-rigorous techniques for studying phase transitions in discrete structures. Recently, their ideas have been harnessed to obtain improved rigorous results on the phase transitions…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Amin Coja-Oghlan , Dan Vilenchik

The current blockchain system for cryptocurrency exchanges primarily employs elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) for generating key pairs in wallets, and elliptic curve digital signature algorithms (ECDSA) for generating signatures in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Abel C. H. Chen

Current quantum computing devices have different strengths and weaknesses depending on their architectures. This means that flexible approaches to circuit design are necessary. We address this task by introducing a novel space-efficient…

Node coloring is the task of assigning colors to the nodes of a graph such that no two adjacent nodes have the same color, while using as few colors as possible. It is the most widely studied instance of graph coloring and of central…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Knut Vanderbush , Melanie Weber

The emergence of quantum computing has introduced unprecedented security challenges to conventional cryptographic systems, particularly in the domain of optical communications. This research addresses these challenges by innovatively…

Differential Privacy is the gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. This paper addresses the challenge of producing a differentially edge-private vertex coloring. In this paper, we present two novel algorithms to approach this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Michael Xie , Jiayi Wu , Dung Nguyen , Aravind Srinivasan

An injective $k$-edge-coloring of a graph $G$ is an assignment of colors, i.e. integers in $\{1, \ldots , k\}$, to the edges of $G$ such that any two edges each incident with one distinct endpoint of a third edge, receive distinct colors.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Florent Foucaud , Hervé Hocquard , Dimitri Lajou

Approximate random k-colouring of a graph G=(V,E) is a very well studied problem in computer science and statistical physics. It amounts to constructing a k-colouring of G which is distributed close to Gibbs distribution, i.e. the uniform…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-07-06 Charilaos Efthymiou

In this paper we resolve the complexity of the isomorphism problem on all but finitely many of the graph classes characterized by two forbidden induced subgraphs. To this end we develop new techniques applicable for the structural and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-11-10 Pascal Schweitzer

Although it has been evidenced that DNA computing is able to solve the graph coloring problem in a polynomial time complexity, but the exponential solution space is still a restrictive factor in applying this technique for solving really…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-04-15 Ramin Maazallahi , Aliakbar Niknafs

We present a quantum algorithm solving the $k$-distinctness problem in $O(n^{1-2^{k-2}/(2^k-1)})$ queries with a bounded error. This improves the previous $O(n^{k/(k+1)})$-query algorithm by Ambainis. The construction uses a modified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-10 Aleksandrs Belovs

In this paper, we combine the k-reduction map, the moment method, and the classical shadow method into a practical protocol for certifying the entanglement dimensionality. Our approach is based on the observation that a state with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Changhao Yi , Xiaodi Li , Huangjun Zhu

Quantum annealing is a proposed combinatorial optimization technique meant to exploit quantum mechanical effects such as tunneling and entanglement. Real-world quantum annealing-based solvers require a combination of annealing and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-30 Kenneth M. Zick , Omar Shehab , Matthew French

A strong edge coloring of a graph $G$ is an edge coloring $\phi\,:\,E(G) \rightarrow \mathbb N$ such that each color class forms an induced matching in $G$. The strong chromatic index of $G$, written $\chi'_s(G)$, is the minimum number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Richard Bi , Peter Bradshaw , Abhishek Dhawan , Jingwei Xu

We present three sublinear randomized algorithms for vertex-coloring of graphs with maximum degree $\Delta$. The first is a simple algorithm that extends the idea of Morris and Song to color graphs with maximum degree $\Delta$ using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Asaf Ferber , Liam Hardiman , Xiaonan Chen

We deal with a graph colouring problem that arises in quantum information theory. Alice and Bob are each given a $\pm1$-vector of length $k$, and are to respond with $k$ bits. Their responses must be equal if they are given equal inputs,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 C. D. Godsil , M. W. Newman

If each edge (u,v) of a graph G=(V,E) is decorated with a permutation pi_{u,v} of k objects, we say that it has a permuted k-coloring if there is a coloring sigma from V to {1,...,k} such that sigma(v) is different from pi_{u,v}(sigma(u))…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-11-16 Varsha Dani , Cristopher Moore , Anna Olson

We investigate classical and quantum physics-based algorithms for solving the graph isomorphism problem. Our work integrates and extends previous work by Gudkov et al. (cond-mat/0209112) and by Rudolph (quant-ph/0206068). Gudkov et al.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shiue-yuan Shiau , Robert Joynt , S. N. Coppersmith