The communication complexity of non-signaling distributions

Details The communication complexity of non-signaling distributions The communication complexity of non-signaling distributions

2008-04-30

arxiv.org/abs/0804.4859v5

In MFCS'09, LNCS, vol 5734, 270-281 (2009). Quantum Information & Computation, 11(7&8):649-676 (2011)

Physics

Quantum Physics

23 pages. V2: major modifications, extensions and additions compared to V1. V3 (21 pages): proofs have been updated and simpli

Scientific paper

10.1007/978-3-642-03816-7_24

We study a model of communication complexity that encompasses many well-studied problems, including classical and quantum communication complexity, the complexity of simulating distributions arising from bipartite measurements of shared quantum states, and XOR games. In this model, Alice gets an input x, Bob gets an input y, and their goal is to each produce an output a,b distributed according to some pre-specified joint distribution p(a,b|x,y). We introduce a new technique based on affine combinations of lower-complexity distributions. Specifically, we introduce two complexity measures, one which gives lower bounds on classical communication, and one for quantum communication. These measures can be expressed as convex optimization problems. We show that the dual formulations have a striking interpretation, since they coincide with maximum violations of Bell and Tsirelson inequalities. The dual expressions are closely related to the winning probability of XOR games. These lower bounds subsume many known communication complexity lower bound methods, most notably the recent lower bounds of Linial and Shraibman for the special case of Boolean functions. We show that the gap between the quantum and classical lower bounds is at most linear in the size of the support of the distribution, and does not depend on the size of the inputs. This translates into a bound on the gap between maximal Bell and Tsirelson inequality violations, which was previously known only for the case of distributions with Boolean outcomes and uniform marginals. Finally, we give an exponential upper bound on quantum and classical communication complexity in the simultaneous messages model, for any non-signaling distribution. One consequence is a simple proof that any quantum distribution can be approximated with a constant number of bits of communication.

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