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"Resistant" polynomials and stronger lower bounds for depth-three arithmetical formulas

  • SUNY Buffalo

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Abstract

We derive quadratic lower bounds on the *-complexity of sum-of-products-of-sums (Σ∏Σ) formulas for classes of polynomials f that have too few partial derivatives for the techniques of Shpilka and Wigderson [10,9]. This involves a notion of "resistance" which connotes full-degree behavior of f under any projection to an affine space of sufficiently high dimension. They also show stronger lower bounds over the reals than the complex numbers or over arbitrary fields. Separately, by applying a special form of the Baur-Strassen Derivative Lemma tailored to Σ∏Σ formulas, we obtain sharper bounds on +, *-complexity than those shown for *-complexity by Shpilka and Wigderson [10], most notably for the lowest-degree cases of the polynomials they consider.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputing and Combinatorics - 13th Annual International Conference, COCOON 2007, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages470-481
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783540735441
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Event13th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference, COCOON 2007 - Banff, Canada
Duration: Jul 16 2007Jul 19 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4598 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference, COCOON 2007
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityBanff
Period07/16/0707/19/07

Keywords

  • Arithmetical circuits
  • Computational complexity
  • Constant depth formulas
  • Lower bounds
  • Partial derivatives

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