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In this paper two algorithms solving circuit satisfiability problem over supernilpotent algebras are presented. The first one is deterministic and is faster than fastest previous algorithm presented by Aichinger. The second one is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Piotr Kawałek , Jacek Krzaczkowski

We design the first efficient polynomial identity testing algorithms over the nonassociative polynomial algebra. In particular, multiplication among the formal variables is commutative but it is not associative. This complements the strong…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Partha Mukhopadhyay , C Ramya , Pratik Shastri

The Ideal Proof System (IPS) of Grochow & Pitassi (FOCS 2014, J. ACM, 2018) is an algebraic proof system that uses algebraic circuits to refute the solvability of unsatisfiable systems of polynomial equations. One potential drawback of IPS…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Joshua A. Grochow

We present new deterministic algorithms for several cases of the maximum rank matrix completion problem (for short matrix completion), i.e. the problem of assigning values to the variables in a given symbolic matrix as to maximize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Gábor Ivanyos , Marek Karpinski , Nitin Saxena

We show that the GCD of two univariate polynomials can be computed by (piece-wise) algebraic circuits of constant depth and polynomial size over any sufficiently large field, regardless of the characteristic. This extends a recent result of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Somnath Bhattacharjee , Mrinal Kumar , Shanthanu Rai , Varun Ramanathan , Ramprasad Saptharishi , Shubhangi Saraf

We study sparse polynomials with bounded individual degree and their factors, obtaining the following structural and algorithmic results. 1. A deterministic polynomial-time algorithm to find all sparse divisors of a sparse polynomial of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Aminadav Chuyoon , Amir Shpilka

Mulmuley recently gave an explicit version of Noether's Normalization lemma for ring of invariants of matrices under simultaneous conjugation, under the conjecture that there are deterministic black-box algorithms for polynomial identity…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-03-11 Michael A. Forbes , Amir Shpilka

We present a top-down lower-bound method for depth-$4$ boolean circuits. In particular, we give a new proof of the well-known result that the parity function requires depth-$4$ circuits of size exponential in $n^{1/3}$. Our proof is an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Mika Göös , Artur Riazanov , Anastasia Sofronova , Dmitry Sokolov

We give a new fpt algorithm testing isomorphism of $n$-vertex graphs of tree width $k$ in time $2^{k\operatorname{polylog} (k)}\operatorname{poly} (n)$, improving the fpt algorithm due to Lokshtanov, Pilipczuk, Pilipczuk, and Saurabh (FOCS…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Martin Grohe , Daniel Neuen , Pascal Schweitzer , Daniel Wiebking

In this paper, we provide a deterministic polynomial time algorithm that determines satisfiability of 3-SAT. The complexity analysis for the algorithm takes into account no efficiency and yet provides a low enough bound, that efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Ortho Flint , Asanka Wickramasinghe , Jason Brasse , Christopher Fowler

Zero-free based algorithm is a major technique for deterministic approximate counting. In Barvinok's original framework[Bar17], by calculating truncated Taylor expansions, a quasi-polynomial time algorithm was given for estimating zero-free…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Penghui Yao , Yitong Yin , Xinyuan Zhang

We observe that a certain kind of algebraic proof - which covers essentially all known algebraic circuit lower bounds to date - cannot be used to prove lower bounds against VP if and only if what we call succinct hitting sets exist for VP.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Joshua A. Grochow , Mrinal Kumar , Michael Saks , Shubhangi Saraf

Given a graph $G$, and terminal vertices $s$ and $t$, the TRACKING PATHS problem asks to compute a minimum number of vertices to be marked as trackers, such that the sequence of trackers encountered in each s-t path is unique. TRACKING…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Pratibha Choudhary

For a polynomial $f$ from a class $\mathcal{C}$ of polynomials, we show that the problem to compute all the constant degree irreducible factors of $f$ reduces in polynomial time to polynomial identity tests (PIT) for class $\mathcal{C}$ and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Pranjal Dutta , Amit Sinhababu , Thomas Thierauf

Parameterized complexity theory has enabled a refined classification of the difficulty of NP-hard optimization problems on graphs with respect to key structural properties, and so to a better understanding of their true difficulties. More…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-19 David Coudert , Guillaume Ducoffe , Alexandru Popa

This note continues the theoretical development of deterministic integer factorization algorithms based on systems of polynomials equations. The main result establishes a new deterministic time complexity bench mark in integer…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-09-26 N. A. Carella

We introduce a framework for the formal specification and verification of quantum circuits based on the Feynman path integral. Our formalism, built around exponential sums of polynomial functions, provides a structured and natural way of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Matthew Amy

In breakthrough work, Bravyi, Gosset, and K\"{o}nig (BGK) [Science, 2018] unconditionally proved that constant depth quantum circuits are more powerful than their classical counterparts. Their result is equivalent to saying that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Daochen Wang

We give new and efficient black-box reconstruction algorithms for some classes of depth-$3$ arithmetic circuits. As a consequence, we obtain the first efficient algorithm for computing the tensor rank and for finding the optimal tensor…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Vishwas Bhargava , Shubhangi Saraf , Ilya Volkovich

Motivated by the recent experimental demonstrations of quantum supremacy, proving the hardness of the output of random quantum circuits is an imperative near term goal. We prove under the complexity theoretical assumption of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Yasuhiro Kondo , Ryuhei Mori , Ramis Movassagh