Tuesday, April 16, 2013

1304.3876 (Shenggen Zheng et al.)

Power of the interactive proof systems with verifiers modeled by
semi-quantum two-way finite automata
   [PDF]

Shenggen Zheng, Jozef Gruska, Daowen Qiu
{\em Interactive proof systems} (IP) are very powerful-languages they can accept form exactly PSPACE. They represent also one of the very fundamental concepts of theoretical computing and a model of computation by interactions. One of the key players in IP are verifiers. In the original model of IP whose power is that of PSPACE, the only restriction on verifiers is that they work in randomized polynomial time. Because of such key importance of IP, it is of large interest to find out how powerful will IP be when verifiers are more restricted. So far this was explored for the case that verifiers are {\em two-way probabilistic finite automata} (Dwork and Stockmayer, 1990) and {\em one-way quantum finite automata} as well as {\em two-way quantum finite automata} (Nishimura and Yamakami, 2009). In this paper we explore the power of special type of IP in which verifiers uses {\em public randomization}, namely so called {\em Arthur-Merlin proof systems} (AM), for the case that verifiers are {\em two-way finite automata with quantum and classical states} (2QCFA) introduced by Ambainis and Watrous in 2002 and the communications are classical. It is of interest to consider AM with such "semi-quantum" verifiers because 2QCFA use only limited quantum resources. Our main result is that such Quantum Arthur-Merlin proof systems (QAM(2QCFA) are asymptotically more powerful than in the case verifiers are two-way probabilistic finite automata (AM(2PFA)) and that there is an NP-complete language, modeling the 0-1 knapsack problem, that can be recognized by QAM(2QCFA).
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3876

No comments:

Post a Comment