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We prove that several measures in communication complexity are equivalent, up to polynomial factors in the logarithm of the rank of the associated matrix: deterministic communication complexity, randomized communication complexity, information cost and zero-communication cost. This shows that in order to prove the log-rank conjecture, it suffices to show that low-rank matrices have efficient protocols in any of the aforementioned measures.
Furthermore, we show that the notion of zero-communication complexity is equivalent to an extension of the common discrepancy bound. Linial et al. [Combinatorica, 2007] showed that the discrepancy of a sign matrix is lower-bounded by an inverse polynomial in the logarithm of the associated matrix. We show that if these results can be generalized to the extended discrepancy, this will imply the log-rank conjecture.
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Gavinsky, D., Lovett, S. (2014). En Route to the Log-Rank Conjecture: New Reductions and Equivalent Formulations. In: Esparza, J., Fraigniaud, P., Husfeldt, T., Koutsoupias, E. (eds) Automata, Languages, and Programming. ICALP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8572. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43948-7_43
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