Analyzing refutations of the well known
pebbling formulas we prove some new strong connections between pebble games and algebraic proof system, showing that
there is a parallelism between the reversible, black and black-white pebbling games on one side, and
the three algebraic proof systems NS, MC and ...
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In this work, we initiate the study of the space complexity of the Polynomial Identity Testing problem (PIT).
First, we observe that the majority of the existing (time-)efficient ``blackbox'' PIT algorithms already give rise to space-efficient ``whitebox'' algorithms for the respective classes of arithmetic formulas via a space-efficient ...
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We study extractors computable in uniform $\mathrm{AC}^0$ and uniform $\mathrm{NC}^1$.
For the $\mathrm{AC}^0$ setting, we give a construction such that for every $k \ge n/ \mathrm{poly} \log n, \eps \ge 2^{-\mathrm{poly} \log n}$, it can extract $(1-\gamma)k$ randomness from an $(n, k)$ source for an arbitrary constant ...
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