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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-discrete-mathematical-sciences-and-cryptography</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0065</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0972-0529</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JDMSC-1557</article-id>
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        <article-title>A quantum algorithm for computing multiplicative order of integers modulo a prime</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name>
            <surname>Valluri</surname>
            <given-names>Maheswara Rao</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Derrick Campus, Suva, Fiji National University, P. O. Box 7222, Fiji</aff>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>26</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>573</fpage>
      <lpage>584</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <abstract>
        <p>One of the challenging problems in number theory is to compute efficiently multiplicative order of integers modulo a prime. This problem was listed under open problems in the number theoretic complexity II proposed by Leonard M. Adleman and Kevin S.McCurley in 1994. This paper offers a polynomial-time quantum algorithm for computing the order k = min {x|x∈N, ax ≡ 1(mod p)}, if p∈ Primes and gcd(a,p) = 1, where a, p∈N, and it requires O((log2p)2+O(1)) quantum operations.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>Group order</kwd>
        <kwd>Order finding</kwd>
        <kwd>Qubits</kwd>
        <kwd>Quantum computation</kwd>
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