Recursively Enumerable Languages Have Finite State Interactive Proofs

Report ID: TR-213-89
Author: Lipton, Richard J.
Date: 1989-03-00
Pages: 8
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Abstract:

We show that interactive proof systems with 2-way probabilistic finite state verifiers can accept any recursively enumerable language. The same proof method also shows that the emptiness problem for 1-way probabilistic finite state machines is undecidable.