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Leibniz international proceedings in informatics

Access Structure in Graphs in High Dimension and Application to Secret Sharing

Anne Marin, Damian Markham, Simon Perdrix

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

We give graphical characterisation of the access structure to both classical and quantum information encoded onto a multigraph defined for prime dimension q, as well as explicit decoding operations for quantum secret sharing based on graph state protocols. We give a lower bound on $k$ for the existence of a ((k,n))_q scheme and prove, using probabilistic methods, that there exists alpha such that a random multigraph has an accessing parameter k => alpha*n with high probability.

DOI
10.4230/lipics.tqc.2013.308

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