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Pseudodeterminism and MA != NPBPP in Communication Complexity

Thomas Watson

cs.CCarXiv:2608.26425

Abstract

We prove an exponential separation between zero-sided-error randomized and two-sided-error pseudodeterministic communication complexities of partial boolean functions. This qualitatively improves and simplifies the proof of the separation by Göös, Harms, Riazanov, Sofronova, Sokolov, and Yuan (STOC 2026), which had a two-sided-error randomized upper bound. Then, we generalize our technique to separate the communication complexity analogues of MA and NPBPP.

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