Abstract
An arithmetic circuit or formula is multilinear if the polynomial computed at each of its wires is multilinear. We give an explicit example for a polynomial f(x 1, ..., x n), with coefficients in {0,1}, such that over any field: 1. f can be computed by a polynomial-size multilinear circuit of depth O(log 2 n). 2. Any multilinear formula for / is of size n (log n). This gives a super-polynomial gap between multilinear circuit and formula size, and separates multilinear NC 1. circuits from multilinear NC 2 circuits.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 344-351 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS |
| State | Published - 2004 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Proceedings - 45th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2004 - Rome, Italy Duration: Oct 17 2004 → Oct 19 2004 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Engineering