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# A Note on a Communication Game

@article{Drucker2017ANO,
title={A Note on a Communication Game},
author={Andrew Drucker},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2017},
volume={abs/1706.07890}
}
• Andrew Drucker
• Published 24 June 2017
• Mathematics, Computer Science
• ArXiv
We describe a communication game, and a conjecture about this game, whose proof would imply the well-known Sensitivity Conjecture asserting a polynomial relation between sensitivity and block sensitivity for Boolean functions. The author defined this game and observed the connection in Dec. 2013 - Jan. 2014. The game and connection were independently discovered by Gilmer, Kouck\'y, and Saks, who also established further results about the game (not proved by us) and published their results in…
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