Depth-independent lower bounds on the communication complexity of read-once Boolean formulas

  • Authors:
  • Rahul Jain;Hartmut Klauck;Shengyu Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Quantum Technologies and Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore;Centre for Quantum Technologies and SPMS, Nanyang Technological University;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • COCOON'10 Proceedings of the 16th annual international conference on Computing and combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We show lower bounds of Ω(√n) and Ω(n1/4) on the randomized and quantum communication complexity, respectively, of all n variable read-once Boolean formulas. Our results complement the recent lower bound of Ω(n/8d) by Leonardos and Saks [LS09] and Ω(n/2O(d log d)) by Jayram, Kopparty and Raghavendra [JKR09] for randomized communication complexity of read-once Boolean formulas with depth d. We obtain our result by "embedding" either the Disjointness problem or its complement in any given read-once Boolean formula.