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arXiv:0708.0859 · IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC)

Exponential Separation of Quantum and Classical Non-interactive Multi-party Communication Complexity

Dmitry Gavinsky, Pavel Pudlák

Published Jun 1, 2008• 9 citations
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Abstract

We give the first exponential separation between quantum and classical multi-party communication complexity in the (non-interactive) one-way and simultaneous message passing settings.
DOI
10.1109/ccc.2008.27

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