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Measuring communication complexity using instance complexity with oracles

Computational Complexity 2009-01-20 v1

Abstract

We establish a connection between non-deterministic communication complexity and instance complexity, a measure of information based on algorithmic entropy. Let x\overline{x}, y\overline{y} and Y1(x)Y_1(\overline{x}) be respectively the input known by Alice, the input known by Bob, and the set of all values of yy such that f(x,y)=1f(\overline{x},y)=1; a string is a witness of the non-deterministic communication protocol iff it is a program pp that "corresponds exactly" to the instance complexity \icf,t(y:Y1(x))\ic^{f,t}(\overline{y}:Y_1(\overline{x})).

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@article{arxiv.0901.2906,
  title  = {Measuring communication complexity using instance complexity with oracles},
  author = {Armando Matos and Andreia Teixeira and Andre Souto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.2906},
  year   = {2009}
}
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