Depth lower bounds for monotone semi-unbounded fan-in circuits

Johannsen, Jan

Johannsen, Jan

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications, Tome 35 (2001) no. 3, pp. 277-286.

Résumé

The depth hierarchy results for monotone circuits of Raz and McKenzie [5] are extended to the case of monotone circuits of semi-unbounded fan-in. It follows that the inclusions $N C^{i} \subseteq S A C^{i} \subseteq A C^{i}$ are proper in the monotone setting, for every $i \geq 1$ .

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Classification : 68Q17, 68Q15
Mots-clés : monotone circuit, semi-unbounded fan-in, communication complexity, lower bound

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Johannsen, Jan. Depth lower bounds for monotone semi-unbounded fan-in circuits. RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications, Tome 35 (2001) no. 3, pp. 277-286. http://www.numdam.org/item/ITA_2001__35_3_277_0/

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