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Achieving perfect completeness in classical-witness quantum Merlin-Arthur proof systems

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arxiv 1111.5306 v2 pith:MCWJS3HV submitted 2011-11-22 quant-ph

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This paper proves that classical-witness quantum Merlin-Arthur proof systems can achieve perfect completeness. That is, QCMA = QCMA1. This holds under any gate set with which the Hadamard and arbitrary classical reversible transformations can be exactly implemented, e.g., {Hadamard, Toffoli, NOT}. The proof is quantumly nonrelativizing, and uses a simple but novel quantum technique that additively adjusts the success probability, which may be of independent interest.

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  1. ${\sf QMA}={\sf QMA}_1$ with an infinite counter

    quant-ph 2025-06 conditional novelty 8.0 of 10

    With an infinite counter register as part of the witness, QMA and its perfect-completeness variant QMA_1 become the same complexity class, and a finite truncation gives doubly-exponential completeness amplification.

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