Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 324 1 a iii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Measure the coset state in the common eigenbasis of the group shift operators. Its overlap isThe character-sum cancellation lemma makes this sum when is trivial on , and zero otherwise. Hence, with the annihilator of a subgroup of a finite abelian group,Since , this is the uniform distribution on a finite set . The factor has modulus one, so the distribution is independent of . This is abelian hidden-subgroup Fourier sampling.