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A multi-prover interactive proof for NEXP sound against entangled provers

Ito, Tsuyoshi
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Vidick, Thomas  orcid-logo
2012
Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS
2012 IEEE 53rd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS)

We prove a strong limitation on the ability of entangled provers to collude in a multiplayer game. Our main result is the first nontrivial lower bound on the class MIP* of languages having multi-prover interactive proofs with entangled provers, namely MIP* contains NEXP, the class of languages decidable in non-deterministic exponential time. While Babai, Fort now, and Lund (Computational Complexity 1991) proved the celebrated equality MIP = NEXP in the absence of entanglement, ever since the introduction of the class MIP* it was open whether shared entanglement between the provers could weaken or strengthen the computational power of multi-prover interactive proofs. Our result shows that it does not weaken their computational power: MIP* contains MIP. At the heart of our result is a proof that Babai, Fort now, and Lund's multilinearity test is sound even in the presence of entanglement between the provers, and our analysis of this test could be of independent interest. As a byproduct we show that the correlations produced by any entangled strategy which succeeds in the multilinearity test with high probability can always be closely approximated using shared randomness alone. © 2012 IEEE.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1109/FOCS.2012.11
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-84871982670

Author(s)
Ito, Tsuyoshi

NEC Laboratories America, Inc.

Vidick, Thomas  orcid-logo

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Date Issued

2012

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Published in
Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS
DOI of the book
https://doi.org/10.1109/FOCS20409.2012
ISBN of the book

978-0-7685-4874-6

Article Number

6375302

Start page

243

End page

252

Subjects

entanglement

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multiple provers

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quantum interactive proofs

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

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Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
2012 IEEE 53rd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS)

FOCS 2012

New Brunswick, NJ, USA

2012-10-20 - 2012-10-23

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November 25, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/256340
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