Title
Toward Better Depth Lower Bounds: Two Results on the Multiplexor Relation
Abstract
One of the major open problems in complexity theory is proving super-logarithmic lower bounds on the depth of circuits (i.e., $$\textbf{P} \not\subseteq \textbf{NC}^{1}$$ ). Karchmer, Raz, and Wigderson (Computational Complexity 5(3/4):191–204, 1995) suggested to approach this problem by proving that depth complexity behaves ``as expected'' with respect to the composition of functions f ◊ g. They showed that the validity of this conjecture would imply that $$\textbf{P} \not\subseteq \textbf{NC}^{1}$$ . As a way to realize this program, Edmonds et al. (Computational Complexity 10(3):210–246, 2001) suggested to study the ``multiplexor relation'' MUX. In this paper, we present two results regarding this relation:
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s00037-020-00194-8
computational complexity
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Circuit complexity, Circuit Lower Bounds, Depth complexity, Depth lower bounds, Communication complexity, Karchmer–Wigersion relations, KRW conjecture, Multiplexor, Multiplexer, Address function, 68Q15
Journal
29
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1016-3328
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Or Meir16610.47