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Parallel algorithms for solvable permutation groups
AbstractA number of basic problems involving solvable and nilpotent permutation groups are shown to have fast parallel solutions. Testing solvability is in NC as well as, for solvable groups, finding order, testing membership, finding centralizers, finding centers, finding the derived series and finding a composition series. Additionally, for nilpotent groups, one can, in NC, find a central composition series, and find pointwise stabilizers of sets. The latter is applied to an instance of graph isomorphism. A useful tool is the observation that the problem of finding the smallest subspace containing a given set of vectors and closed under a given set of linear transformations (all over a small field) belongs to NC
Fast Quantum Fourier Transforms for a Class of Non-abelian Groups
An algorithm is presented allowing the construction of fast Fourier
transforms for any solvable group on a classical computer. The special
structure of the recursion formula being the core of this algorithm makes it a
good starting point to obtain systematically fast Fourier transforms for
solvable groups on a quantum computer. The inherent structure of the Hilbert
space imposed by the qubit architecture suggests to consider groups of order
2^n first (where n is the number of qubits). As an example, fast quantum
Fourier transforms for all 4 classes of non-abelian 2-groups with cyclic normal
subgroup of index 2 are explicitly constructed in terms of quantum circuits.
The (quantum) complexity of the Fourier transform for these groups of size 2^n
is O(n^2) in all cases.Comment: 16 pages, LaTeX2
Synthesis and Optimization of Reversible Circuits - A Survey
Reversible logic circuits have been historically motivated by theoretical
research in low-power electronics as well as practical improvement of
bit-manipulation transforms in cryptography and computer graphics. Recently,
reversible circuits have attracted interest as components of quantum
algorithms, as well as in photonic and nano-computing technologies where some
switching devices offer no signal gain. Research in generating reversible logic
distinguishes between circuit synthesis, post-synthesis optimization, and
technology mapping. In this survey, we review algorithmic paradigms ---
search-based, cycle-based, transformation-based, and BDD-based --- as well as
specific algorithms for reversible synthesis, both exact and heuristic. We
conclude the survey by outlining key open challenges in synthesis of reversible
and quantum logic, as well as most common misconceptions.Comment: 34 pages, 15 figures, 2 table
Graph Isomorphism for unit square graphs
In the past decades for more and more graph classes the Graph Isomorphism
Problem was shown to be solvable in polynomial time. An interesting family of
graph classes arises from intersection graphs of geometric objects. In this
work we show that the Graph Isomorphism Problem for unit square graphs,
intersection graphs of axis-parallel unit squares in the plane, can be solved
in polynomial time. Since the recognition problem for this class of graphs is
NP-hard we can not rely on standard techniques for geometric graphs based on
constructing a canonical realization. Instead, we develop new techniques which
combine structural insights into the class of unit square graphs with
understanding of the automorphism group of such graphs. For the latter we
introduce a generalization of bounded degree graphs which is used to capture
the main structure of unit square graphs. Using group theoretic algorithms we
obtain sufficient information to solve the isomorphism problem for unit square
graphs.Comment: 31 pages, 6 figure
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