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Read-once polynomials: How many summands suffice?

Computational Complexity 2015-12-15 v1

Abstract

An arithmetic read-once formula (ROF) is a formula (circuit of fan-out 1) over +,×+, \times where each variable labels at most one leaf. Every multilinear polynomial can be expressed as the sum of ROFs. In this work, we prove, for certain multilinear polynomials, a tight lower bound on the number of summands in such an expression.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1512.04386,
  title  = {Read-once polynomials: How many summands suffice?},
  author = {Meena Mahajan and Anuj Tawari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.04386},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages

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