TY - JOUR T1 - Optimal quantum adversary lower bounds for ordered search Y1 - 2007 A1 - Andrew M. Childs A1 - Troy Lee AB - The goal of the ordered search problem is to find a particular item in an ordered list of n items. Using the adversary method, Hoyer, Neerbek, and Shi proved a quantum lower bound for this problem of (1/pi) ln n + Theta(1). Here, we find the exact value of the best possible quantum adversary lower bound for a symmetrized version of ordered search (whose query complexity differs from that of the original problem by at most 1). Thus we show that the best lower bound for ordered search that can be proved by the adversary method is (1/pi) ln n + O(1). Furthermore, we show that this remains true for the generalized adversary method allowing negative weights. UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.3396v1 J1 - Proc. 35th International Colloquium on Automata U5 - 10.1007/978-3-540-70575-8_71 ER -