Title
The shifted partial derivative complexity of Elementary Symmetric Polynomials.
Abstract
We continue the study of the shifted partial derivative measure, introduced by Kayal (ECCC 2012), which has been used to prove many strong depth-4 circuit lower bounds starting from the work of Kayal, and that of Gupta et al. (CCC 2013). We show a strong lower bound on the dimension of the shifted partial derivative space of the Elementary Symmetric Polynomials of degree d in N variables for d < log N/log log N. This extends the work of Nisan and Wigderson (Computational Complexity 1997), who studied the partial derivative space of these polynomials. Prior to our work, there have been no results on the shifted partial derivative measure of these polynomials. Our result implies a strong lower bound for Elementary Symmetric Polynomials in the homogeneous EllEll model with bounded bottom fan-in. This strengthens (under our degree assumptions) a lower bound of Nisan and Wigderson who proved the analogous result for homogeneous EITE model (i.e. EllEll formulas with bottom fan -in 1). Our main technical lemma gives a lower bound for the ranks of certain inclusion-like matrices, and may be of independent interest.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-662-48054-0_27
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
9235
1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
1
0.38
References 
Authors
16
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hervé Fournier118518.10
Nutan Limaye213420.59
Meena Mahajan368856.90
Srikanth Srinivasan413221.31