9780521408264: LMS: 169 Boolean Function Complexty

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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.

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Descrizione del libro

Boolean function complexity has seen exciting advances in the last few years. It is a long established area of discrete mathematics which uses combinatorial and occasionally algebraic methods.

Contenuti

1. Relationships between monotone and non-monotone network complexity; 2. On read-once Boolean functions; 3. Boolean function complexity: a lattice-theoretic perspective; 4. Monotone complexity; 5. On submodular complexity measures; 6. Why is Boolean complexity so difficult?; 7. The multiplicative complexity of Boolean quadratic forms; 8. Some problems involving Razborov–Smolensky polynomials; 9. Symmetry functions in AC0; 10. Boolean complexity and probabilistic constructions; 11. Networks computing Boolean functions for multiple input values; 12. Optimal carry save networks.

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