{"paper":{"title":"A Quantum Query Complexity Trichotomy for Regular Languages","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cs.CC"],"primary_cat":"quant-ph","authors_text":"Daniel Grier, Luke Schaeffer, Scott Aaronson","submitted_at":"2018-12-11T05:00:52Z","abstract_excerpt":"We present a trichotomy theorem for the quantum query complexity of regular languages. Every regular language has quantum query complexity Theta(1), ~Theta(sqrt n), or Theta(n). The extreme uniformity of regular languages prevents them from taking any other asymptotic complexity. This is in contrast to even the context-free languages, which we show can have query complexity Theta(n^c) for all computable c in [1/2,1]. Our result implies an equivalent trichotomy for the approximate degree of regular languages, and a dichotomy---either Theta(1) or Theta(n)---for sensitivity, block sensitivity, ce"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1812.04219","kind":"arxiv","version":3},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}