We consider a quantum and classical version multi-party function computation problem with $n$ players, where players $2, \dots, n$ need to communicate appropriate information to player 1, so that a "generalized" inner product function with an appropriate promise can be calculated. The communication complexity of a protocol is the total number of bits that need to be communicated. When $n$ is prime and for our chosen function, we exhibit a quantum protocol (with complexity $(n-1) \log n$ bits) and a classical protocol (with complexity $(n-1)^2 (\log n^2$) bits). In the quantum protocol, the players have access to entangled qudits but the communication is still classical. Furthermore, we present an integer linear programming formulation for determining a lower bound on the classical communication complexity. This demonstrates that our quantum protocol is strictly better than classical protocols.

翻译：我们考虑一个涉及$n$个参与者的量子与经典版本多方函数计算问题，其中参与者$2, \dots, n$需向参与者1传递适当信息，以便在给定承诺条件下计算"广义"内积函数。协议的通信复杂度定义为需要传输的总比特数。当$n$为素数且针对所选函数时，我们构造了一个量子协议（复杂度为$(n-1) \log n$比特）和一个经典协议（复杂度为$(n-1)^2 (\log n^2$比特）。在量子协议中，参与者可以访问纠缠的量子比特，但通信仍为经典方式。此外，我们提出了一种整数线性规划模型，用于确定经典通信复杂度的下界。这表明我们的量子协议严格优于经典协议。