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Buhrman, Cleve and Wigderson (STOC'98) showed that for every Boolean function f : {-1,1}^n to {-1,1} and G in {AND_2, XOR_2}, the bounded-error quantum communication complexity of the composed function f o G equals O(Q(f) log n), where Q(f)…

This paper investigates the ambiguity function (AF) of communication signals carrying random data payloads, which is a fundamental metric characterizing sensing capability in ISAC systems. We first develop a unified analytical framework to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Ying Zhang , Fan Liu , Yifeng Xiong , Tao Liu , Shi Jin

We study two basic graph parameters, the chromatic number and the orthogonal rank, in the context of classical and quantum exact communication complexity. In particular, we consider two types of communication problems that we call promise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-24 Jop Briët , Harry Buhrman , Debbie Leung , Teresa Piovesan , Florian Speelman

Linear network coding transmits data through networks by letting the intermediate nodes combine the messages they receive and forward the combinations towards their destinations. The solvability problem asks whether the demands of all the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Maximilien Gadouleau , Adrien Richard , Eric Fanchon

A Boolean network (BN) with $n$ components is a discrete dynamical system described by the successive iterations of a function $f:\{0,1\}^n\to\{0,1\}^n$. In most applications, the main parameter is the interaction graph of $f$: the digraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Aymeric Picard Marchetto , Adrien Richard

The Forrelation problem is a central problem that demonstrates an exponential separation between quantum and classical capabilities. In this problem, given query access to $n$-bit Boolean functions $f$ and $g$, the goal is to estimate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Uma Girish , Rocco Servedio

Representations of Boolean functions by real polynomials play an important role in complexity theory. Typically, one is interested in the least degree of a polynomial p(x_1,...,x_n) that approximates or sign-represents a given Boolean…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-05-15 Alexander A. Sherstov

An open problem in communication complexity proposed by several authors is to prove that for every Boolean function f, the task of computing f(x AND y) has polynomially related classical and quantum bounded-error complexities. We solve a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Alexander A. Sherstov

We prove a general lower bound on the bounded-error entanglement-assisted quantum communication complexity of Boolean functions. The bound is based on the concept that any classical or quantum protocol to evaluate a function on distributed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Ashley Montanaro , Andreas Winter

We fully determine the communication complexity of approximating matrix rank, over any finite field $\mathbb{F}$. We study the most general version of this problem, where $0\leq r<R\leq n$ are given integers, Alice and Bob's inputs are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Alexander A. Sherstov , Andrey A. Storozhenko

In a recent work (Ghazi et al., SODA 2016), the authors with Komargodski and Kothari initiated the study of communication with contextual uncertainty, a setup aiming to understand how efficient communication is possible when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Badih Ghazi , Madhu Sudan

Motivated by the quest for a broader understanding of communication complexity of simple functions, we introduce the class of "permutation-invariant" functions. A partial function $f:\{0,1\}^n \times \{0,1\}^n\to \{0,1,?\}$ is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Badih Ghazi , Pritish Kamath , Madhu Sudan

We study nondeterministic multiparty quantum communication with a quantum generalization of broadcasts. We show that, with number-in-hand classical inputs, the communication complexity of a Boolean function in this communication model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Harry Buhrman , Matthias Christandl , Jeroen Zuiddam

We propose a novel expressivity framework for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) grounded in Boolean function theory, enabling a fine-grained analysis of their ability to capture complex subpopulation structures. We introduce the notion of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Manjish Pal

We study parity decision trees for Boolean functions. The motivation of our study is the log-rank conjecture for XOR functions and its connection to Fourier analysis and parity decision tree complexity. Let f be a Boolean function with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Nikhil S. Mande , Swagato Sanyal

We investigate the randomized and quantum communication complexities of the well-studied Equality function with small error probability $\epsilon$, getting optimal constant factors in the leading terms in a number of different models. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-19 Olivier Lalonde , Nikhil S. Mande , Ronald de Wolf

We prove new lower bounds for bounded error quantum communication complexity. Our methods are based on the Fourier transform of the considered functions. First we generalize a method for proving classical communication complexity lower…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hartmut Klauck

One of the major outstanding foundational problems about boolean functions is the sensitivity conjecture, which (in one of its many forms) asserts that the degree of a boolean function (i.e. the minimum degree of a real polynomial that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Justin Gilmer , Michal Koucký , Michael Saks

In this paper we obtain some bounds on communication complexity of Gap Hamming Distance problem ($\mathsf{GHD}^n_{L, U}$): Alice and Bob are given binary string of length $n$ and they are guaranteed that Hamming distance between their…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Alexander Kozachinskiy

In this paper, we propose algorithms for the graph isomorphism (GI) problem that are based on the eigendecompositions of the adjacency matrices. The eigenvalues of isomorphic graphs are identical. However, two graphs $ G_A $ and $ G_B $ can…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Stefan Klus , Tuhin Sahai