On Toda's Theorem in Structural Communication Complexity

  • Authors:
  • Henning Wunderlich

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität Ulm, Fakultät für Ingenieurwissenschaften und Informatik, Institut für Theoretische Informatik, Oberer Eselsberg, D-89069 Ulm,

  • Venue:
  • SOFSEM '09 Proceedings of the 35th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We prove Toda's Theorem, i.e. in the context of structural communication complexity. The class PSPACE cc was defined via alternating protocols with $\mathcal{O}(\log n)$ many alternations. In this article we consider the class BP· ⊕ P cc of Toda’s Theorem, and show that every language in this class can be decided with alternating protocols using $\mathcal{O}(\log n/\log\log n)$ many alternations. The respective proof is based on a new alternating protocol for the inner product function IP with $\mathcal{O}(\log n/\log\log n)$ many alternations.