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Abstract for MSRI Preprint 2002-028

On Computational Power of Quantum Branching Programs

Farid Ablayev, Aida Gainutdinova and Marek Karpinski

In this paper we study a model of a Quantum Branching Program (QBP) and investigate its computational power. We prove a general lower bound on the width of read-once QBPs, which we show to be almost tight on certain symmetric function.