We explore the torus polynomial approximation based approach towards a long-standing question: whether AND can be computed by $CC^0$ circuits - the class of constant-depth polynomial size circuits containing $MOD_m$ gates for some natural number $m$.
Bhrushundi, Hosseini, Lovett and Rao (ITCS 2019) introduced torus polynomial approximations as an approach ... more >>>

We prove an $\tilde{\Omega}(n^2)$ lower bound for read-once parity branching programs computing an explicit boolean function on $n$ variables. The previous best lower bound was $\tilde{\Omega}(n^{1.5})$. Our lower bound is proved by reducing the problem to a lower bound in algebraic circuit complexity.

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This paper studies the isomorphism problem for Boolean formulas and places it precisely in the polynomial hierarchy. Two of its results are new. The first sharpens the relationship between Boolean and graph isomorphism. Chang's reduction shows only that the unrestricted Boolean isomorphism problem is GI-hard, in one direction; restricting both ... more >>>