  NOTE: PAPER WITHDRAWN (See Comments) The Clifford and Local Clifford groups
for $d > 2$ dimensional systems have been topics of recent interest due to
their applications in graph states, quantum codes, and possible applications in
fast quantum algorithms. This paper studies these groups more abstractly, by
first characterizing the Pauli Automorphism and Local Automorphism groups, and
then using these results to determine characteristics of the Clifford and Local
Clifford groups. Not only does such an approach reveal new information about
the Clifford and Local Clifford groups, but it also shows how many previously
derived results arise naturally as simple corollaries. Lastly, we give a
systematic method of building an arbitrary Local Clifford operator from a small
number of previously known gates, as well as a method to physically implement
such an operator.
