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Lower Bound for General Circuits Computing Clique Function

Computational Complexity 2015-02-23 v2

Abstract

We prove an exponential lower bound for general circuits computing the clique function and hereby confirm that NP != P.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1502.04650,
  title  = {Lower Bound for General Circuits Computing Clique Function},
  author = {Weimin Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.04650},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial error in Section 3

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