On the Tightness of the Buhrman-Cleve-Wigderson Simulation

  • Authors:
  • Shengyu Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,

  • Venue:
  • ISAAC '09 Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Buhrman, Cleve and Wigderson gave a general communication protocol for block-composed functions $f(g_1(x^1, y^1), \ldots, g_n(x^n, y^n))$ by simulating a decision tree computation for f [3]. It is also well-known that this simulation can be very inefficient for some functions f and (g 1, ..., g n ). In this paper we show that the simulation is actually polynomially tight up to the choice of (g 1, ..., g n ). This also implies that the classical and quantum communication complexities of certain block-composed functions are polynomially related.