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TR00-006 | 26th January 2000
E.A. Okol'nishnikiva

#### On operations of geometrical projection and monotone extension

Some operations over Boolean functions are considered. It is shown that
the operation of the geometrical projection and the operation of the
monotone extension can increase the complexity of Boolean functions for
formulas in each finite basis, for switching networks, for branching
programs, and read-$k$-times ... more >>>

TR09-142 | 17th December 2009
Aaron Potechin

#### Bounds on Monotone Switching Networks for Directed Connectivity

Revisions: 1

We prove that any monotone switching network solving directed connectivity on $N$ vertices must have size $N^{\Omega(\log N)}$

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TR12-185 | 29th December 2012
Siu Man Chan, Aaron Potechin

#### Tight Bounds for Monotone Switching Networks via Fourier Analysis

We prove tight size bounds on monotone switching networks for the NP-complete problem of
$k$-clique, and for an explicit monotone problem by analyzing a pyramid structure of height $h$ for
the P-complete problem of generation. This gives alternative proofs of the separations of m-NC
from m-P and of m-NC$^i$ from ... more >>>

TR13-042 | 25th March 2013
Siu Man Chan

#### Just a Pebble Game

The two-player pebble game of Dymond–Tompa is identified as a barrier for existing techniques to save space or to speed up parallel algorithms for evaluation problems.

Many combinatorial lower bounds to study L versus NL and NC versus P under different restricted settings scale in the same way as the ... more >>>

TR13-054 | 4th April 2013
Yuval Filmus, Toniann Pitassi, Robert Robere, Stephen A. Cook

#### Average Case Lower Bounds for Monotone Switching Networks

Revisions: 1

An approximate computation of a Boolean function by a circuit or switching network is a computation which computes the function correctly on the majority of the inputs (rather than on all inputs). Besides being interesting in their own right, lower bounds for approximate computation have proved useful in many subareas ... more >>>

TR16-064 | 19th April 2016
Stephen A. Cook, Toniann Pitassi, Robert Robere, Benjamin Rossman

#### Exponential Lower Bounds for Monotone Span Programs

Monotone span programs are a linear-algebraic model of computation which were introduced by Karchmer and Wigderson in 1993. They are known to be equivalent to linear secret sharing schemes, and have various applications in complexity theory and cryptography. Lower bounds for monotone span programs have been difficult to obtain because ... more >>>

TR16-188 | 21st November 2016
Toniann Pitassi, Robert Robere

#### Strongly Exponential Lower Bounds for Monotone Computation

For a universal constant $\alpha > 0$, we prove size lower bounds of $2^{\alpha N}$ for computing an explicit monotone function in NP in the following models of computation: monotone formulas, monotone switching networks, monotone span programs, and monotone comparator circuits, where $N$ is the number of variables of the ... more >>>

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