A Separation of NP and coNP in Multiparty Communication Complexity

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Abstract

We prove that NP differs from coNP and coNP is not a subset of MA in the number-on-forehead model of multiparty communication complexity for up to k = (1-ε)log(n) players, where ε>0 is any constant. Specifically, we construct a function F with co-nondeterministic complexity O(log(n)) and Merlin-Arthur complexity n^{Ω(1)}. The problem was open for k > 2.

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