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Unitary decomposition is a widely used method to map quantum algorithms to an arbitrary set of quantum gates. Efficient implementation of this decomposition allows for translation of bigger unitary gates into elementary quantum operations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 A. M. Krol , A. Sarkar , I. Ashraf , Z. Al-Ars , K. Bertels

Hardness magnification reduces major complexity separations (such as $\mathsf{\mathsf{EXP}} \nsubseteq \mathsf{NC}^1$) to proving lower bounds for some natural problem $Q$ against weak circuit models. Several recent works [OS18, MMW19,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Lijie Chen , Shuichi Hirahara , Igor C. Oliveira , Jan Pich , Ninad Rajgopal , Rahul Santhanam

We study the Excluded Grid Theorem, a fundamental structural result in graph theory, that was proved by Robertson and Seymour in their seminal work on graph minors. The theorem states that there is a function $f: \mathbb{Z}^+ \to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Julia Chuzhoy , Zihan Tan

Implementing many important sub-circuits on near-term quantum devices remains a challenge due to the high levels of noise and the prohibitive depth on standard nearest-neighbour topologies. Overcoming these barriers will likely require…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Angus Mingare , Anastasia Moroz , Marcell D Kovacs , Andrew G Green

As quantum computing resources remain scarce and error rates high, minimizing the resource consumption of quantum circuits is essential for achieving practical quantum advantage. Here we consider the natural problem of, given a circuit $C$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Adam Husted Kjelstrøm , Andreas Pavlogiannis , Jaco van de Pol

We refine the complexity landscape for enumeration problems by introducing very low classes defined by using Boolean circuits as enumerators. We locate well-known enumeration problems, e.g., from graph theory, Gray code enumeration, and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Nadia Creignou , Arnaud Durand , Heribert Vollmer

The Toffoli gate is a fundamental building block for quantum arithmetic and reversible logic, yet its efficient realization remains a major challenge in both near-term and fault-tolerant quantum architectures. Recent advances in dynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Abhoy Kole , Till Schnittka , Rolf Drechsler

This paper studies the complexity of distributed construction of purely additive spanners in the CONGEST model. We describe algorithms for building such spanners in several cases. Because of the need to simultaneously make decisions at far…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Keren Censor-Hillel , Telikepalli Kavitha , Ami Paz , Amir Yehudayoff

Border complexity captures functions that can be approximated by low-complexity ones. Debordering is the task of proving an upper bound on some non-border complexity measure in terms of a border complexity measure, thus getting rid of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Pranjal Dutta , Vladimir Lysikov

We introduce a new combinatorial structure: the superselector. We show that superselectors subsume several important combinatorial structures used in the past few years to solve problems in group testing, compressed sensing, multi-channel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-10-07 Ferdinando Cicalese , Ugo Vaccaro

$ \newcommand{\cclass}[1]{{\normalfont\textsf{##1}}} $We show average-case lower bounds for explicit Boolean functions against bounded-depth threshold circuits with a superlinear number of wires. We show that for each integer $d > 1$, there…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Ruiwen Chen , Rahul Santhanam , Srikanth Srinivasan

Distributed network optimization algorithms, such as minimum spanning tree, minimum cut, and shortest path, are an active research area in distributed computing. This paper presents a fast distributed algorithm for such problems in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Bernhard Haeupler , Jason Li , Goran Zuzic

In recent years, the expander decomposition method was used to develop many graph algorithms, resulting in major improvements to longstanding complexity barriers. This powerful hammer has led the community to (1) believe that most problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Amir Abboud , Nathan Wallheimer

Transient algebra is a multi-valued algebra for hazard detection in gate circuits. Sequences of alternating 0's and 1's, called transients, represent signal values, and gates are modeled by extensions of boolean functions to transients.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-08-11 Janusz Brzozowski , Baiyu Li , Yuli Ye

In this work, we carry out structural and algorithmic studies of a problem of barrier forming: selecting theminimum number of straight line segments (barriers) that separate several sets of mutually disjoint objects in the plane. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Si Wei Feng , Jingjin Yu

Transversal gates play a crucial role in suppressing error propagation in fault-tolerant quantum computation, yet they are intrinsically constrained: any nontrivial code encoding a single logical qubit admits only a finite subgroup of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Chao Zhang , Zipeng Wu , Shilin Huang , Bei Zeng

Backdoors and backbones of Boolean formulas are hidden structural properties. A natural goal, already in part realized, is that solver algorithms seek to obtain substantially better performance by exploiting these structures. However, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Lane A. Hemaspaandra , David E. Narváez

We consider the problem of constructing fast and small parallel prefix adders for non-uniform input arrival times. This problem arises whenever the adder is embedded into a more complex circuit, e. g. a multiplier. Most previous results are…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-11-12 Stephan Held , Sophie Spirkl

We prove a theorem on separation of boundary null points for generators of continuous semigroups of holomorphic self-mappings of the unit disk in the complex plane. Our construction demonstrates the existence and importance of a particular…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2010-03-01 Mark Elin , David Shoikhet , Nikolai Tarkhanov

Arithmetic complexity is considered simpler to understand than Boolean complexity, namely computing Boolean functions via logical gates. And indeed, we seem to have significantly more lower bound techniques and results in arithmetic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Klim Efremenko , Ankit Garg , Rafael Oliveira , Avi Wigderson