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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2019.50
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-102892
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2019/10289/
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Loff, Bruno ; Mukhopadhyay, Sagnik

Lifting Theorems for Equality

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Abstract

We show a deterministic simulation (or lifting) theorem for composed problems f o Eq_n where the inner function (the gadget) is Equality on n bits. When f is a total function on p bits, it is easy to show via a rank argument that the communication complexity of f o Eq_n is Omega(deg(f) * n). However, there is a surprising counter-example of a partial function f on p bits, such that any completion f' of f has deg(f') = Omega(p), and yet f o Eq_n has communication complexity O(n). Nonetheless, we are able to show that the communication complexity of f o Eq_n is at least D(f) * n for a complexity measure D(f) which is closely related to the AND-query complexity of f and is lower-bounded by the logarithm of the leaf complexity of f. As a corollary, we also obtain lifting theorems for the set-disjointness gadget, and a lifting theorem in the context of parity decision-trees, for the NOR gadget.
As an application, we prove a tight lower-bound for the deterministic communication complexity of the communication problem, where Alice and Bob are each given p-many n-bit strings, with the promise that either all of the strings are distinct, or all-but-one of the strings are distinct, and they wish to know which is the case. We show that the complexity of this problem is Theta(p * n).

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{loff_et_al:LIPIcs:2019:10289,
  author =	{Bruno Loff and Sagnik Mukhopadhyay},
  title =	{{Lifting Theorems for Equality}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2019)},
  pages =	{50:1--50:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-100-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{126},
  editor =	{Rolf Niedermeier and Christophe Paul},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2019/10289},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2019.50},
  annote =	{Keywords: Communication complexity, Query complexity, Simulation theorem, Equality function}
}

Keywords: Communication complexity, Query complexity, Simulation theorem, Equality function
Collection: 36th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2019)
Issue Date: 2019
Date of publication: 12.03.2019

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