Characterization of Non-Deterministic Quantum Query and Quantum Communication Complexity

  • Authors:
  • Ronald de Wolf

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • COCO '00 Proceedings of the 15th Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

It is known that the classical and quantum query complexities of a total Boolean function ý are polynomially related to the degree of its representing polynomial, but the optimal exponents in these relations are unknown. We show that the non-deterministic quantum query complexity of ý is linearly related to the degree of a 驴non-deterministic驴 polynomial for ý. We also prove a quantum-classical gap of 1 vs. n for non-deterministic query complexity for a total ý. In the case of quantum communication complexity there is a (partly undetermined) relation between the complexity of ý and the logarithm of the rank of its communication matrix. We show that the non-deterministic quantum communication complexity of ý is linearly related to the logarithm of the rank of a non-deterministic version of the communication matrix, and that it can be exponentially smaller than its classical counterpart can.