In 1990 Karchmer and Widgerson considered the follow-ing communication problem Bit: Alice and Bob know a function f: {0, 1}n → {0, 1}, Alice receives a point x ∈ f−1(1), Bob receives y ∈ f−1(0), and their goal is to find a position i such that xi = yi. Karch-mer and Wigderson proved that the minimal size of a boolean formula for the function f equals the size of the smallest communication protocol for the Bit relation. In this paper we consider a model of dag-like commu-nication complexity (instead of classical one where protocols correspond to trees). We prove an analogue of Karchmer-Wigderson Theorem for this model and boolean circuits. We also consider a relation between this model and communication PLS games proposed by Razborov in 1995 and simplify the proof of Razborov’s analogue of Karchmer-Wigderson Theorem for PLS games. We also consider a dag-like analogue of real-valued communication protocols and adapt a lower bound technique for monotone real circuits to prove a lower bound for these protocols. In 1997 Krajéıˇcek suggested an interpolation technique that allows to prove lower bounds on the lengths of resolution proofs and Cutting Plane proofs with small coefficients (CP). Also in 2016 Krajéıˇcek adapted this technique to “random resolution”. The base of this technique is an application of Razborov’s theorem. We use real-valued dag-like commu-nication protocols to generalize the ideas of this technique, which helps us to prove a lower bound on the Cutting Plane proof system (CP) and adapt it to “random CP”. Our notion of dag-like communication games allows us to use a Raz-McKenzie transformation [5, 17], which yields a lower bound on the real monotone circuit size for the CSP-SAT problem.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Science - Theory and Applications - 12th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, CSR 2017, Proceedings
EditorsPascal Weil
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages294-307
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783319587462
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2017
Event12th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, CSR 2017 - Kazan, Russian Federation
Duration: 8 Jun 201712 Jun 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10304 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, CSR 2017
Country/TerritoryRussian Federation
CityKazan
Period8/06/1712/06/17

    Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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