Common information was introduced by Wyner as a measure of dependence of two
random variables. This measure has been recently resurrected as a lower bound on the logarithm of the nonnegative rank of a nonnegative matrix. Lower bounds on nonnegative rank have important applications to several areas such
as communication ... more >>>

We show that
derandomizing polynomial identity testing over an arbitrary finite
field implies that NEXP does not have polynomial size boolean
circuits. In other words, for any finite field F(q) of size q,
$PIT_q\in NSUBEXP\Rightarrow NEXP\not\subseteq P/poly$, where
$PIT_q$ is the polynomial identity testing problem over F(q), and
NSUBEXP is ... more >>>

We give a general reduction of lengths-of-proofs lower bounds for
constant depth Frege systems in DeMorgan language augmented by
a connective counting modulo a prime $p$
(the so called $AC^0[p]$ Frege systems)
to computational complexity
lower bounds for search tasks involving search trees branching upon
values of linear maps on ... more >>>