CS 298-2
Theory Seminar

Sean Hallgren
NEC Research

Fast Quantum Algorithms for Computing the Unit Group and Class Group of a Number Field

Monday, May 24, 2004
4-5pm
Wozniak Lounge Soda Hall

Computing the unit group and class group of a number field are two of the
main tasks in computational algebraic number theory. Factoring integers
reduces to a special case of computing the unit group, but a reduction in
the other direction is not known and appears more difficult. We give
polynomial-time quantum algorithms for computing the unit group and class
group when the number field has constant degree.