Constant-Coin Complete-Information Debates for $\mathsf{P}$ with Arbitrarily Small Strong Error

📅 2026-09-21
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研究解决了常数硬币完全信息辩论系统中任意小强错误的问题,通过模拟多项式时间交替多头有限自动机并私密抽查输入头实现。
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We study complete-information debate systems in which a probabilistic finite-state verifier reads the alternating messages of a prover and a refuter. Demirci, Say, and Yakaryılmaz showed that every language in $\mathsf{P}$ has such debates checkable with a constant number of random bits and arbitrarily small weak error. Their strong-error construction, which also counts nontermination as failure, did not permit arbitrary error reduction. We close this gap: for every $L\in\mathsf{P}$ and every $\varepsilon>0$, there is a constant-space verifier using a constant number of private coin tosses that has perfect completeness and strong error at most $\varepsilon$. The verifier simulates a polynomial-time alternating multihead finite automaton, privately spot-checking one of its input heads. The key observation is that, on a nonmember, the refuter may concede any round in which the prover first misreports a head reading. This ensures termination against every prover when the refuter follows the specified strategy, and permits strong-error reduction by repetition.
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constant-space verifier
private coin tosses
strong error
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constant-space verifier
strong error reduction
alternating multihead finite automaton
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