48th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS'07)
A Lower Bound for the Size of Syntactically Multilinear Arithmetic Circuits
Providence, Rhode Island
October 21-October 23
ISBN: 0-7695-3010-9
We construct an explicit polynomial f(x_1 , \ldots ,x_n ), with coefficients in {0, 1}, such that the size of any syntactically multilinear arithmetic circuit computing f is at least \Omega (n^{4/3} /\log ^2 n). The lower bound holds over any field.
Citation:
Ran Raz, Amir Shpilka, Amir Yehudayoff, "A Lower Bound for the Size of Syntactically Multilinear Arithmetic Circuits," focs, pp.438-448, 48th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS'07), 2007