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Sensitivity, block sensitivity and certificate complexity are basic complexity measures of Boolean functions. The famous sensitivity conjecture claims that sensitivity is polynomially related to block sensitivity. However, it has been…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Andris Ambainis , Krišjānis Prūsis , Jevgēnijs Vihrovs

We describe the construction of quantum gates (unitary operators) from boolean functions and give a number of applications. Both non-reversible and reversible boolean functions are considered. The construction of the Hamilton operator for a…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Yorick Hardy , Willi-Hans Steeb

We establish a lower bound for deciding the satisfiability of the conjunction of any two Boolean formulas from a set called a full representation of Boolean functions of $n$ variables - a set containing a Boolean formula to represent each…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Samuel C. Hsieh

We derive a spectral interpretation of the pivot operation on a graph and generalise this operation to hypergraphs. We establish lower bounds on the number of flat spectra of a Boolean function, depending on internal structures, with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Constanza Riera , Lars Eirik Danielsen , Matthew G. Parker

In the area of query complexity of Boolean functions, the most widely studied cost measure of an algorithm is the worst-case number of queries made by it on an input. Motivated by the most natural cost measure studied in online algorithms,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Alison Hsiang-Hsuan Liu , Nikhil S. Mande

The paper discusses the gate complexity and the depth of reversible circuits consisting of NOT, CNOT and 2-CNOT gates in the case, when the number of additional inputs is limited. We study Shannon's gate complexity function $L(n, q)$ and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Dmitry V. Zakablukov

We present several families of total boolean functions which have exact quantum query complexity which is a constant multiple (between 1/2 and 2/3) of their classical query complexity, and show that optimal quantum algorithms for these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Ashley Montanaro , Richard Jozsa , Graeme Mitchison

Boolean nested canalizing functions (NCFs) have important applications in molecular regulatory networks, engineering and computer science. In this paper, we study their certificate complexity. For both Boolean values $b\in\{0,1\}$, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-15 Yuan Li , Frank Ingram , Huaming Zhang

Boolean nested canalizing functions (NCFs) have important applications in molecular regulatory networks, engineering and computer science. In this paper, we study their certificate complexity. For both Boolean values $b\in\{0,1\}$, we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yuan Li , Frank Ingram , Huaming Zhang

It is already shown that a Boolean function for a NP-complete problem can be computed by a polynomial-sized circuit if its variables have enough number of automorphisms. Looking at this previous study from the different perspective gives us…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Satoshi Tazawa

A monotone Boolean circuit is composed of OR gates, AND gates and input gates corresponding to the input variables and the Boolean constants. It is $q$-multilinear if for each its output gate $o$ and for each prime implicant $s$ of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Andrzej Lingas , Mia Persson

Let $U_{k,N}$ denote the Boolean function which takes as input $k$ strings of $N$ bits each, representing $k$ numbers $a^{(1)},\dots,a^{(k)}$ in $\{0,1,\dots,2^{N}-1\}$, and outputs 1 if and only if $a^{(1)} + \cdots + a^{(k)} \geq 2^N.$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Xi Chen , Igor C. Oliveira , Rocco A. Servedio

Multiplication is one of the most fundamental computational problems, yet its true complexity remains elusive. The best known upper bound, by F\"{u}rer, shows that two $n$-bit numbers can be multiplied via a boolean circuit of size $O(n \lg…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Peyman Afshani , Casper Benjamin Freksen , Lior Kamma , Kasper Green Larsen

Boolean functions with symmetry properties are interesting from a complexity theory perspective; extensive research has shown that these functions, if nonconstant, must have high `complexity' according to various measures. In recent work of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-01-14 Andrew Drucker

It has been proved that almost all $n$-bit Boolean functions have exact classical query complexity $n$. However, the situation seemed to be very different when we deal with exact quantum query complexity. In this paper, we prove that almost…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Andris Ambainis , Jozef Gruska , Shenggen Zheng

Quantum computing has gained attention in recent years due to the significant progress in quantum computing technology. Today many companies like IBM, Google and Microsoft have developed quantum computers and simulators for research and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-04 Hassan Hajjdiab , Ashraf Khalil , Hichem Eleuch

This article provides a survey of circuit complexity bounds for basic boolean transforms exploited in digital circuit design and efficient methods for synthesizing such circuits. The exposition covers structurally simple functions and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Igor S. Sergeev

We describe and motivate a proposed new approach to lowerbounding the circuit complexity of boolean functions, based on a new formalization of "patterns" as elements of a special basis of the vector space of all truth table properties. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Bruce K. Smith

This paper studies the hazard-free formula complexity of Boolean functions. Our first result shows that unate functions are the only Boolean functions for which the monotone formula complexity of the hazard-derivative equals the hazard-free…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Leah London Arazi , Amir Shpilka