# Arthur-Merlin games in Boolean decision trees

@article{Raz1998ArthurMerlinGI,
title={Arthur-Merlin games in Boolean decision trees},
author={Ran Raz and G{\'a}bor Tardos and Oleg Verbitsky and Nikolai K. Vereshchagin},
journal={Proceedings. Thirteenth Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (Formerly: Structure in Complexity Theory Conference) (Cat. No.98CB36247)},
year={1998},
pages={58-67}
}
• Published 15 June 1998
• Computer Science
• Proceedings. Thirteenth Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (Formerly: Structure in Complexity Theory Conference) (Cat. No.98CB36247)
It is well known that probabilistic boolean decision trees cannot be much more powerful than deterministic ones. Motivated by a question if randomization can significantly speed up a nondeterministic computation via a boolean decision tree, we address structural properties of Arthur-Merlin games in this model and prove some lower bounds. We consider two cases of interest, the first when the length of communication between the players is limited and the second if it is not. While in the first…
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