Results on communication complexity classes

The authors consider deterministic, probabilistic, nondeterministic, and alternating complexity classes defined by polylogarithmic communication. They give a simple technique allowing translation of most known separation and containment results for complexity classes of the fixed-partition model to the more difficult optimal partition model, for which few results were previously known. They demonstrate that a certain natural language (block equality) in Sigma /sub 2//sup cc/ is also, unexpectedly, in Pi /sub 2//sup cc/.<
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