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On completely factoring any integer efficiently in a single run of an order finding algorithm

Quantum Physics 2024-06-07 v2 Cryptography and Security Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We show that given the order of a single element selected uniformly at random from ZN\mathbb Z_N^*, we can with very high probability, and for any integer NN, efficiently find the complete factorization of NN in polynomial time. This implies that a single run of the quantum part of Shor's factoring algorithm is usually sufficient. All prime factors of NN can then be recovered with negligible computational cost in a classical post-processing step. The classical algorithm required for this step is essentially due to Miller.

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@article{arxiv.2007.10044,
  title  = {On completely factoring any integer efficiently in a single run of an order finding algorithm},
  author = {Martin Ekerå},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.10044},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

A minor issue in the proof of Lemma 2 has been corrected. Two references have furthermore been added, the introduction has been improved, and a number of other minor improvements have been made. No results are affected by this revision

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