On rank vs. communication complexity

  • Authors:
  • N. Nisan;A. Wigderson

  • Affiliations:
  • Inst. of Comput. Sci., Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, Israel;Inst. of Comput. Sci., Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, Israel

  • Venue:
  • SFCS '94 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

This paper concerns the open problem of Lovasz and Saks (1988) regarding the relationship between the communication complexity of a Boolean function and the rank of the associated matrix. We first give an example exhibiting the largest gap known. We then prove two related theorems.