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Parallel Repetition for $3$-Player XOR Games

Computational Complexity 2024-08-20 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

In a 33-XOR\mathsf{XOR} game G\mathcal{G}, the verifier samples a challenge (x,y,z)μ(x,y,z)\sim \mu where μ\mu is a probability distribution over Σ×Γ×Φ\Sigma\times\Gamma\times\Phi, and a map t ⁣:Σ×Γ×ΦAt\colon \Sigma\times\Gamma\times\Phi\to\mathcal{A} for a finite Abelian group A\mathcal{A} defining a constraint. The verifier sends the questions xx, yy and zz to the players Alice, Bob and Charlie respectively, receives answers f(x)f(x), g(y)g(y) and h(z)h(z) that are elements in A\mathcal{A} and accepts if f(x)+g(y)+h(z)=t(x,y,z)f(x)+g(y)+h(z) = t(x,y,z). The value, val(G)\mathsf{val}(\mathcal{G}), of the game is defined to be the maximum probability the verifier accepts over all players' strategies. We show that if G\mathcal{G} is a 33-XOR\mathsf{XOR} game with value strictly less than 11, whose underlying distribution over questions μ\mu does not admit Abelian embeddings into (Z,+)(\mathbb{Z},+), then the value of the nn-fold repetition of G\mathcal{G} is exponentially decaying. That is, there exists c=c(G)>0c=c(\mathcal{G})>0 such that val(Gn)2cn\mathsf{val}(\mathcal{G}^{\otimes n})\leq 2^{-cn}. This extends a previous result of [Braverman-Khot-Minzer, FOCS 2023] showing exponential decay for the GHZ game. Our proof combines tools from additive combinatorics and tools from discrete Fourier analysis.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2408.09352,
  title  = {Parallel Repetition for $3$-Player XOR Games},
  author = {Amey Bhangale and Mark Braverman and Subhash Khot and Yang P. Liu and Dor Minzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.09352},
  year   = {2024}
}
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