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Valiant's conjecture asserts that the circuit complexity classes VP and VNP are distinct, meaning that the permanent does not admit polynomial-size algebraic circuits. As it is the case in many branches of complexity theory, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Prateek Dwivedi , Benedikt Pago , Tim Seppelt

We provide a list of new natural $\mathsf{VNP}$-intermediate polynomial families, based on basic (combinatorial) $\mathsf{NP}$-complete problems that are complete under parsimonious reductions. Over finite fields, these families are in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Meena Mahajan , Nitin Saurabh

We define a theory of parameterized algebraic complexity classes in analogy to parameterized Boolean counting classes. We define the classes VFPT and VW[t], which mirror the Boolean counting classes #FPT and #W[t], and define appropriate…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Markus Blaeser , Christian Engels

Valiant introduced some 25 years ago an algebraic model of computation along with the complexity classes VP and VNP, which can be viewed as analogues of the classical classes P and NP. They are defined using non-uniform sequences of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-06-13 Laurent Lyaudet , Pascal Koiran , Uffe Flarup

In 1979 Valiant introduced the complexity class VNP of p-definable families of polynomials, he defined the reduction notion known as p-projection and he proved that the permanent polynomial and the Hamiltonian cycle polynomial are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Christian Ikenmeyer , Abhiroop Sanyal

Assuming that the Permanent polynomial requires algebraic circuits of exponential size, we show that the class VNP does not have efficiently computable equations. In other words, any nonzero polynomial that vanishes on the coefficient…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Mrinal Kumar , C. Ramya , Ramprasad Saptharishi , Anamay Tengse

One fundamental question in the context of the geometric complexity theory approach to the VP vs. VNP conjecture is whether VP = $\overline{\textrm{VP}}$, where VP is the class of families of polynomials that are of polynomial degree and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Joshua A. Grochow , Ketan D. Mulmuley , Youming Qiao

We investigate the following question: if a polynomial can be evaluated at rational points by a polynomial-time boolean algorithm, does it have a polynomial-size arithmetic circuit? We argue that this question is certainly difficult.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-10-02 Pascal Koiran , Sylvain Perifel

Immanants are polynomial functions of n by n matrices attached to irreducible characters of the symmetric group S_n, or equivalently to Young diagrams of size n. Immanants include determinants and permanents as extreme cases. Valiant proved…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jean-Luc Brylinski , Ranee Brylinski

We discuss the geometry of orbit closures and the asymptotic behavior of Kronecker coefficients in the context of the Geometric Complexity Theory program to prove a variant of Valiant's algebraic analog of the P not equal to NP conjecture.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-01-10 Peter Buergisser , J. M. Landsberg , Laurent Manivel , Jerzy Weyman

In 1979 Valiant showed that the complexity class VP_e of families with polynomially bounded formula size is contained in the class VP_s of families that have algebraic branching programs (ABPs) of polynomially bounded size. Motivated by the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Karl Bringmann , Christian Ikenmeyer , Jeroen Zuiddam

This paper presents the following results on sets that are complete for NP. 1. If there is a problem in NP that requires exponential time at almost all lengths, then every many-one NP-complete set is complete under length-increasing…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Xiaoyang Gu , John M. Hitchcock , A. Pavan

We deploy algebraic complexity theoretic techniques for constructing symmetric determinantal representations of for00504925mulas and weakly skew circuits. Our representations produce matrices of much smaller dimensions than those given in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-10-24 Bruno Grenet , Erich Kaltofen , Pascal Koiran , Natacha Portier

Inspired by computational complexity results for the quantified constraint satisfaction problem, we study the clones of idempotent polymorphisms of certain digraph classes. Our first results are two algebraic dichotomy, even "gap",…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Catarina Carvalho , Florent Madelaine , Barnaby Martin

In 1990 Subramanian defined the complexity class CC as the set of problems log-space reducible to the comparator circuit value problem (CCV). He and Mayr showed that NL \subseteq CC \subseteq P, and proved that in addition to CCV several…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-07-29 Stephen A. Cook , Yuval Filmus , Dai Tri Man Le

We study algebraic complexity classes and their complete polynomials under \emph{homogeneous linear} projections, not just under the usual affine linear projections that were originally introduced by Valiant in 1979. These reductions are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Pranjal Dutta , Fulvio Gesmundo , Christian Ikenmeyer , Gorav Jindal , Vladimir Lysikov

Let $A$ be the path algebra of a Dynkin quiver $Q$ over a finite field, and $\mathscr{P}$ be the category of projective $A$-modules. Denote by $C^1(\mathscr{P})$ the category of 1-cyclic complexes over $\mathscr{P}$, and…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Shiquan Ruan , Jie Sheng , Haicheng Zhang

A dichotomy theorem for counting problems due to Creignou and Hermann states that or any nite set S of logical relations, the counting problem #SAT(S) is either in FP, or #P-complete. In the present paper we show a dichotomy theorem for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-12-15 Irénée Briquel , Pascal Koiran

This paper introduces and studies a class of Weyl-type algebras \(A_{p,t,\cA} = \Weyl{e^{\pm x^{p} e^{t x}},\; e^{\cA x},\; x^{\cA}}\) constructed over exponential-polynomial rings, where \(\FF\) is a field of characteristic zero, \(\cA\)…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Mohammad H. M. Rashid

In a sequence of seminal results in the 80's, Kaltofen showed that the complexity class VP is closed under taking factors. A natural question in this context is to understand if other natural classes of multivariate polynomials, for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Chi-Ning Chou , Mrinal Kumar , Noam Solomon
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