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.

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.

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.

Introduction to Circuit Complexity

Introduction to Circuit Complexity
Author: Heribert Vollmer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3662039273

An advanced textbook giving a broad, modern view of the computational complexity theory of boolean circuits, with extensive references, for theoretical computer scientists and mathematicians.

Cryptographic Boolean Functions and Applications

Cryptographic Boolean Functions and Applications
Author: Thomas W. Cusick
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2009-03-04
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0080952224

Boolean functions are the building blocks of symmetric cryptographic systems. Symmetrical cryptographic algorithms are fundamental tools in the design of all types of digital security systems (i.e. communications, financial and e-commerce).Cryptographic Boolean Functions and Applications is a concise reference that shows how Boolean functions are used in cryptography. Currently, practitioners who need to apply Boolean functions in the design of cryptographic algorithms and protocols need to patch together needed information from a variety of resources (books, journal articles and other sources). This book compiles the key essential information in one easy to use, step-by-step reference. Beginning with the basics of the necessary theory the book goes on to examine more technical topics, some of which are at the frontier of current research. Serves as a complete resource for the successful design or implementation of cryptographic algorithms or protocols using Boolean functions Provides engineers and scientists with a needed reference for the use of Boolean functions in cryptography Addresses the issues of cryptographic Boolean functions theory and applications in one concentrated resource Organized logically to help the reader easily understand the topic

Computational Complexity

Computational Complexity
Author: Sanjeev Arora
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2009-04-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0521424267

New and classical results in computational complexity, including interactive proofs, PCP, derandomization, and quantum computation. Ideal for graduate students.

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.