Title
VNP=VP in the multilinear world
Abstract
In this note, we show that over fields of any characteristic, exponential sums of Boolean instantiations of polynomials computed by multilinear circuits can be computed by multilinear circuits with polynomial blow-up in size. In particular, multilinear-VNP equals multilinear-VP. Our result showing closure under exponential sums also holds for other restricted multilinear classes – polynomials computed by multilinear (bounded-width) algebraic branching programs and formulas. Furthermore, it holds even if the circuit class is not fully multilinear but computes a polynomial that is multilinear in the summation variables.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.ipl.2015.08.004
Information Processing Letters
Keywords
Field
DocType
Computational complexity,Algebraic complexity,Circuits,Branching programs,Multilinearity
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Algebraic number,Exponential function,Polynomial,Polarization of an algebraic form,Algebraic complexity,Multilinear map,Mathematics,Computational complexity theory,Branching (version control)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
116
2
0020-0190
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Meena Mahajan168856.90
Nitin Saurabh253.81
Sébastien Tavenas3145.19