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We provide a doubly exponential upper bound in $p$ on the size of forbidden pivot-minors for symmetric or skew-symmetric matrices over a fixed finite field $\mathbb{F}$ of linear rank-width at most $p$. As a corollary, we obtain a doubly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-24 Mamadou Moustapha Kanté , O-joung Kwon

In the decision tree computation model for Boolean functions, the depth corresponds to query complexity, and size corresponds to storage space. The depth measure is the most well-studied one, and is known to be polynomially related to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yogesh Dahiya , Meena Mahajan

We prove lower bounds on complexity measures, such as the approximate degree of a Boolean function and the approximate rank of a Boolean matrix, using quantum arguments. We prove these lower bounds using a quantum query algorithm for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Shalev Ben-David , Adam Bouland , Ankit Garg , Robin Kothari

A {+,x}-circuit counts a given multivariate polynomial f, if its values on 0-1 inputs are the same as those of f; on other inputs the circuit may output arbitrary values. Such a circuit counts the number of monomials of f evaluated to 1 by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Stasys Jukna

Linear differential equations and recurrences reveal many properties about their solutions. Therefore, these equations are well-suited for representing solutions and computing with special functions. We identify a large class of existing…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Louis Gaillard

The Minimum Circuit Size Problem for Partial Functions ($MCSP^*$) is hard assuming the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH) (Ilango, 2020). This breakthrough hardness result leveraged a characterization of the optimal $\{\land, \lor, \neg\}$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Marco Carmosino , Ngu Dang , Tim Jackman

We study the problem of estimating the size of the maximum matching in the sublinear-time setting. This problem has been extensively studied, with several known upper and lower bounds. A notable result by Behnezhad (FOCS 2021) established a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Vihan Shah

We study symmetric arithmetic circuits and improve on lower bounds given by Dawar and Wilsenach (ArXiv 2020). Their result showed an exponential lower bound of the permanent computed by symmetric circuits. We extend this result to show a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Christian Engels

This work develops algorithms for non-parametric confidence regions for samples from a univariate distribution whose support is a discrete mesh bounded on the left. We generalize the theory of Learned-Miller to preorders over the sample…

Computation · Statistics 2026-02-11 George Bissias

We introduce techniques for proving superlinear conditional lower bounds for polynomial time problems. In particular, we show that CircuitSAT for circuits with m gates and log(m) inputs (denoted by log-CircuitSAT) is not decidable in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-05-18 András Z. Salamon , Michael Wehar

We show that any quantum algorithm searching an ordered list of n elements needs to examine at least 1/12 log n-O(1) of them. Classically, log n queries are both necessary and sufficient. This shows that quantum algorithms can achieve only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andris Ambainis

We consider the number of linear extensions of an N-free order P. We give upper and lower bounds on this number in terms of parameters of the corresponding arc diagram. We propose a dynamic programming algorithm to calculate the number. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-16 Stefan Felsner , Thibault Manneville

We obtain lower tail estimates for the smallest singular value of random matrices with independent but non-identically distributed entries. Specifically, we consider $n\times n$ matrices with complex entries of the form \[ M = A\circ X + B…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Nicholas A. Cook

Consider a system of $m$ polynomial equations $\{p_i(x) = b_i\}_{i \leq m}$ of degree $D\geq 2$ in $n$-dimensional variable $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$ such that each coefficient of every $p_i$ and $b_i$s are chosen at random and independently…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Jun-Ting Hsieh , Pravesh K. Kothari

We give a new bound on the sum of the linear Fourier coefficients of a Boolean function in terms of its parity decision tree complexity. This result generalizes an inequality of O'Donnell and Servedio for regular decision trees. We use this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Eric Blais , Li-Yang Tan , Andrew Wan

In this paper we give subexponential size hitting sets for bounded depth multilinear arithmetic formulas. Using the known relation between black-box PIT and lower bounds we obtain lower bounds for these models. For depth-3 multilinear…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Rafael Oliveira , Amir Shpilka , Ben Lee Volk

The class $(r,2)$-CSP, or simply Max 2-CSP, consists of constraint satisfaction problems with at most two $r$-valued variables per clause. For instances with $n$ variables and $m$ binary clauses, we present an $O(n r^{5+19m/100})$-time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-03-26 Alexander D. Scott , Gregory B. Sorkin

Our contribution in this paper is two folded. We consider first the case of linear programming with real coefficients and give a method which allows the computation of a new upper bound on the distance from the origin to a feasible point.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Beniamin Costandin , Marius Costandin , Petru Dobra

We exhibit supercritical trade-off for monotone circuits, showing that there are functions computable by small circuits for which any circuit must have depth super-linear or even super-polynomial in the number of variables, far exceeding…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Susanna F. de Rezende , Noah Fleming , Duri Andrea Janett , Jakob Nordström , Shuo Pang

The aim of this paper is to study the product of $n$ linear forms over function fields. We calculate the maximum value of the minima of the forms with determinant one when $n$ is small. The value is equal to the natural bound given by…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Wenyu Guo , Xuan Liu , Ronggang Shi