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TR98-053 | 30th August 1998
Paul Beame, Michael Saks, Jayram S. Thathachar

Time-Space Tradeoffs for Branching Programs

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We obtain the first non-trivial time-space tradeoff lower bound for
functions f:{0,1}^n ->{0,1} on general branching programs by exhibiting a
Boolean function f that requires exponential size to be computed by any
branching program of length cn, for some constant c>1. We also give the first
separation result between the ... more >>>


TR98-002 | 8th January 1998
Jayram S. Thathachar

On Separating the Read-k-Times Branching Program Hierarchy

We obtain an exponential separation between consecutive
levels in the hierarchy of classes of functions computable by
polynomial-size syntactic read-$k$-times branching programs, for
{\em all\/} $k>0$, as conjectured by various
authors~\cite{weg87,ss93,pon95b}. For every $k$, we exhibit two
explicit functions that can be computed by linear-sized
read-$(\kpluso)$-times branching programs but ... more >>>




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