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Pietro M. Posta
dblp:431/1687
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
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Theory of computation · 1 · 1 since 2021
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| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Quantum computing and quantum information · 50% Computational complexity · 50% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computational complexity
counting complexity |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Plethysm is in #BQP · CCC 2026 |
Quantum computing and quantum information
quantum complexity theory |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Plethysm is in #BQP · CCC 2026 |
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schur transform · 1.0gapp · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Plethysm is in #BQPabstractSome representation-theoretic multiplicities, such as the Kostka and the Littlewood-Richardson coefficients, admit a combinatorial interpretation that places their computation in the complexity class #𝖯. Whether this holds more generally is considered an important open problem in mathematics and computer science, with relevance for geometric complexity theory and quantum information. Recent work has investigated the quantum complexity of particular multiplicities, such as the Kronecker coefficients and certain special cases of the plethysm coefficients. Here, we show that a broad class of representation-theoretic multiplicities is in #BQP. This includes the result that plethysm coefficients are in #BQP, which was only known in certain cases. It also implies all known results on the quantum complexity of previously studied coefficients as special cases, thus unifying, simplifying, and extending prior work. We obtain our result by multiple applications of the Schur transform; recent work has improved its dependence on the local dimension, which is crucial for our work. We further describe a general approach for showing that representation-theoretic multiplicities are in #BQP that captures the approaches of our and previous work. We complement the above by showing that the same multiplicities are also naturally in GapP and obtain polynomial-time classical algorithms when certain parameters are fixed. Matthias Christandl, Aram W. Harrow, Greta Panova, Pietro M. Posta, Michael Walter 0005 |
CCC | 4 |