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QIP $ \subseteq $ AM(2QCFA)

Quantum Physics 2025-08-29 v1 Computational Complexity Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Abstract

The class of languages having polynomial-time classical or quantum interactive proof systems (IP\mathsf{IP} or QIP\mathsf{QIP}, respectively) is identical to PSPACE\mathsf{PSPACE}. We show that PSPACE\mathsf{PSPACE} (and so QIP\mathsf{QIP}) is subset of AM(2QCFA)\mathsf{AM(2QCFA)}, the class of languages having Arthur-Merlin proof systems where the verifiers are two-way finite automata with quantum and classical states (2QCFAs) communicating with the provers classically. Our protocols use only rational-valued quantum transitions and run in double-exponential expected time. Moreover, the member strings are accepted with probability 1 (i.e., perfect-completeness).

Cite

@article{arxiv.2508.21020,
  title  = {QIP $ \subseteq $ AM(2QCFA)},
  author = {Abuzer Yakaryılmaz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.21020},
  year   = {2025}
}

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15 pages

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