On Interactive Proofs with a Laconic Prover

  • Authors:
  • Oded Goldreich;Salil P. Vadhan;Avi Wigderson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICALP '01 Proceedings of the 28th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming,
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We continue the investigation of interactive proofs with bounded communication, as initiated by Goldreich and Håstad (IPL 1998). Let L be a language that has an interactive proof in which the prover sends few (say b) bits to the verifier. We prove that the complement L has a constant-round interactive proof of complexity that depends only exponentially on b. This provides the first evidence that for NP-complete languages, we cannot expect interactive provers to be much more "laconic" than the standard NP proof. When the proof system is further restricted (e.g., when b = 1, or when we have perfect completeness), we get significantly better upper bounds on the complexity of L.