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We show that if a language $L$ admits a public-coin unambiguous interactive proof (UIP) with round complexity $\ell$, where $a$ bits are communicated per round, then the batch language $L^{\otimes k}$, i.e. the set of $k$-tuples of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Bonnie Berger , Rohan Goyal , Matthew M. Hong , Yael Tauman Kalai

Sampling from the output distributions of quantum computations comprising only commuting gates, known as instantaneous quantum polynomial (IQP) computations, is believed to be intractable for classical computers, and hence this task has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Joel Rajakumar , James D. Watson , Yi-Kai Liu

We define a general formulation of quantum PCPs, which captures adaptivity and multiple unentangled provers, and give a detailed construction of the quantum reduction to a local Hamiltonian with a constant promise gap. The reduction turns…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Harry Buhrman , Jonas Helsen , Jordi Weggemans

This paper positively solves the quantum subroutine problem for fully quantum oracles. The quantum subroutine problem asks whether a quantum computer with an efficiently computable oracle can be efficiently simulated by a non-oracle quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harumichi Nishimura , Masanao Ozawa

We investigate the following longstanding open questions raised by Kraj\'i\v{c}ek and Pudl\'ak (J. Symb. L. 1989), Sadowski (FCT 1997), K\"obler and Messner (CCC 1998) and Messner (PhD 2000). Q1: Does TAUT have (p-)optimal proof systems?…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Fabian Egidy

We investigate the structure of quantum proof systems by establishing collapse results that reveal simplifications in their complexity landscape. By extending classical theorems such as the Karp-Lipton theorem to quantum settings and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Kartik Anand , Kabgyun Jeong , Junseo Lee

We approach the 3-SAT satisfiability problem with the quantum-inspired method of imaginary time propagation (ITP) applied to matrix product states (MPS) on a classical computer. This ansatz is fundamentally limited by a quantum entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Tim Pokart , Frank Pollmann , Jan Carl Budich

This is the full version of a paper submitted to the Computability in Europe (CiE 2023) conference, with all proofs omitted there. In 2012 P. D. Azar and S. Micali introduced a new model of interactive proofs, called "Rational Interactive…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Daniil Musatov , Georgii Potapov

The states accepted by a quantum circuit are known as the witnesses for the quantum circuit's satisfiability. The assumption BQP does not equal QMA implies that no efficient algorithm exists for constructing a witness for a quantum circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Vojtěch Havlíček , Chinmay Nirkhe

Interactive proof systems whose verifiers are constant-space machines have interesting features that do not have counterparts in the better studied case where the verifiers operate under reasonably large space bounds. The language…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-17 M. Utkan Gezer , A. C. Cem Say

We provide the first evidence for the inherent difficulty of finding complex sets with optimal proof systems. For this, we construct oracles $O_1$ and $O_2$ with the following properties, where $\mathrm{RE}$ denotes the class of recursively…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Fabian Egidy , Christian Glaßer

We use the class of commuting quantum computations known as IQP (Instantaneous Quantum Polynomial time) to strengthen the conjecture that quantum computers are hard to simulate classically. We show that, if either of two plausible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Michael J. Bremner , Ashley Montanaro , Dan J. Shepherd

A conjecture of Jozsa (arXiv:quant-ph/0508124) states that any polynomial-time quantum computation can be simulated by polylogarithmic-depth quantum computation interleaved with polynomial-depth classical computation. Separately, Aaronson…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Matthew Coudron , Sanketh Menda

We examine the power of statistical zero knowledge proofs (captured by the complexity class SZK) and their variants. First, we give the strongest known relativized evidence that SZK contains hard problems, by exhibiting an oracle relative…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Adam Bouland , Lijie Chen , Dhiraj Holden , Justin Thaler , Prashant Nalini Vasudevan

Existing definitions of the relativizations of \NCOne, \L\ and \NL\ do not preserve the inclusions $\NCOne \subseteq \L$, $\NL\subseteq \ACOne$. We start by giving the first definitions that preserve them. Here for \L\ and \NL\ we define…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-04-26 Klaus Aehlig , Stephen Cook , Phuong Nguyen

This paper investigates the power of quantum statistical zero knowledge interactive proof systems in the relativized setting. We prove the existence of an oracle relative to which quantum statistical zero-knowledge does not contain UP…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Sanketh Menda , John Watrous

Pudl\'ak [Pud17] lists several major conjectures from the field of proof complexity and asks for oracles that separate corresponding relativized conjectures. Among these conjectures are: - $\mathsf{DisjNP}$: The class of all disjoint…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Titus Dose

What is the power of polynomial-time quantum computation with access to an NP oracle? In this work, we focus on two fundamental tasks from the study of Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problems: search-to-decision reductions, and approximate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Sevag Gharibian , Jonas Kamminga

We prove two sets of results concerning computational complexity classes. The first concerns a variation of the random oracle hypothesis posed by Bennett and Gill after they showed that relative to a randomly chosen oracle, P not equal NP…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Alex Creiner , Stephen Jackson

We initiate the study of the relationship between two complexity classes, BQP (Bounded-Error Quantum Polynomial-Time) and PPAD (Polynomial Parity Argument, Directed). We first give a conjecture that PPAD is contained in BQP, and show a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-08-02 Yang D. Li