Boolean Function Complexity

Boolean Function Complexity
Author: Stasys Jukna
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2012-01-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3642245080

Boolean circuit complexity is the combinatorics of computer science and involves many intriguing problems that are easy to state and explain, even for the layman. This book is a comprehensive description of basic lower bound arguments, covering many of the gems of this “complexity Waterloo” that have been discovered over the past several decades, right up to results from the last year or two. Many open problems, marked as Research Problems, are mentioned along the way. The problems are mainly of combinatorial flavor but their solutions could have great consequences in circuit complexity and computer science. The book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in the fields of computer science and discrete mathematics.

Feasible Mathematics II

Feasible Mathematics II
Author: Peter Clote
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2013-03-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1461225663

Perspicuity is part of proof. If the process by means of which I get a result were not surveyable, I might indeed make a note that this number is what comes out - but what fact is this supposed to confirm for me? I don't know 'what is supposed to come out' . . . . 1 -L. Wittgenstein A feasible computation uses small resources on an abstract computa tion device, such as a 'lUring machine or boolean circuit. Feasible math ematics concerns the study of feasible computations, using combinatorics and logic, as well as the study of feasibly presented mathematical structures such as groups, algebras, and so on. This volume contains contributions to feasible mathematics in three areas: computational complexity theory, proof theory and algebra, with substantial overlap between different fields. In computational complexity theory, the polynomial time hierarchy is characterized without the introduction of runtime bounds by the closure of certain initial functions under safe composition, predicative recursion on notation, and unbounded minimization (S. Bellantoni); an alternative way of looking at NP problems is introduced which focuses on which pa rameters of the problem are the cause of its computational complexity and completeness, density and separation/collapse results are given for a struc ture theory for parametrized problems (R. Downey and M. Fellows); new characterizations of PTIME and LINEAR SPACE are given using predicative recurrence over all finite tiers of certain stratified free algebras (D.

Complexity Lower Bounds Using Linear Algebra

Complexity Lower Bounds Using Linear Algebra
Author: Satyanarayana V. Lokam
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2009-07-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1601982429

We survey several techniques for proving lower bounds in Boolean, algebraic, and communication complexity based on certain linear algebraic approaches. The common theme among these approaches is to study robustness measures of matrix rank that capture the complexity in a given model. Suitably strong lower bounds on such robustness functions of explicit matrices lead to important consequences in the corresponding circuit or communication models. Many of the linear algebraic problems arising from these approaches are independently interesting mathematical challenges.

Lower Bounds in Communication Complexity

Lower Bounds in Communication Complexity
Author: Troy Lee
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2009
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1601982585

The communication complexity of a function f(x, y) measures the number of bits that two players, one who knows x and the other who knows y, must exchange to determine the value f(x, y). Communication complexity is a fundamental measure of complexity of functions. Lower bounds on this measure lead to lower bounds on many other measures of computational complexity. This monograph surveys lower bounds in the field of communication complexity. Our focus is on lower bounds that work by first representing the communication complexity measure in Euclidean space. That is to say, the first step in these lower bound techniques is to find a geometric complexity measure, such as rank or trace norm, that serves as a lower bound to the underlying communication complexity measure. Lower bounds on this geometric complexity measure are then found using algebraic and geometric tools.

Analysis of Boolean Functions

Analysis of Boolean Functions
Author: Ryan O'Donnell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1107038324

This graduate-level text gives a thorough overview of the analysis of Boolean functions, beginning with the most basic definitions and proceeding to advanced topics.

Communication Complexity

Communication Complexity
Author: Eyal Kushilevitz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2006-11-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 052102983X

Surveys the mathematical theory and applications such as computer networks, VLSI circuits, and data structures.

Boolean Function Complexity

Boolean Function Complexity
Author: Michael S. Paterson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1992-11-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0521408261

Here Professor Paterson brings together papers from the 1990 Durham symposium on Boolean function complexity. The participants include many well known figures in the field.