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TR21-054 | 14th April 2021 22:25

Encodings and the Tree Evaluation Problem

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TR21-054
Authors: James Cook, Ian Mertz
Publication: 14th April 2021 22:29
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Abstract:

We show that the Tree Evaluation Problem with alphabet size $k$ and height $h$ can be solved by branching programs of size $k^{O(h/\log h)} + 2^{O(h)}$. This answers a longstanding challenge of Cook et al. (2009) and gives the first general upper bound since the problem's inception.



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