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We show that there is a defining equation of degree at most $\mathsf{poly}(n)$ for the (Zariski closure of the) set of the non-rigid matrices: that is, we show that for every large enough field $\mathbb{F}$, there is a non-zero…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Mrinal Kumar , Ben Lee Volk

We introduce the polynomial coefficient matrix and identify maximum rank of this matrix under variable substitution as a complexity measure for multivariate polynomials. We use our techniques to prove super-polynomial lower bounds against…

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We introduce the problem of constructing explicit variety evasive subspace families. Given a family $\mathcal{F}$ of subvarieties of a projective or affine space, a collection $\mathcal{H}$ of projective or affine $k$-subspaces is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Zeyu Guo

Powerful skew arithmetic circuits are introduced. These are skew arithmetic circuits with variables, where input gates can be labelled with powers $x^n$ for binary encoded numbers $n$. It is shown that polynomial identity testing for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Daniel König , Markus Lohrey

In 2021, Broadbent and Kazmi developed a gate-teleportation-based protocol for computational indistinguishability obfuscation of quantum circuits. This protocol is efficient for Clifford+T circuits with logarithmically many T-gates, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Joshua Nevin

We develop efficient randomized algorithms to solve the black-box reconstruction problem for polynomials over finite fields, computable by depth three arithmetic circuits with alternating addition/multiplication gates, such that output gate…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Gaurav Sinha

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 formalize a framework of algebraically natural lower bounds for algebraic circuits. Just as with the natural proofs notion of Razborov and Rudich for boolean circuit lower bounds, our notion of algebraically natural lower bounds captures…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Michael A. Forbes , Amir Shpilka , Ben Lee Volk

$ \newcommand{\inparen}[1]{\left( #1 \right)} \newcommand{\pfrac}[2]{\inparen{\frac{1}{2}}} \newcommand{\ilog}[1]{\log^{\circ #1}} \newcommand{\F}{\mathbb{F}} $The Polynomial Identity Lemma (also called the "Schwartz--Zippel lemma") states…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Mrinal Kumar , Ramprasad Saptharishi , Anamay Tengse

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

Koiran showed that if a $n$-variate polynomial of degree $d$ (with $d=n^{O(1)}$) is computed by a circuit of size $s$, then it is also computed by a homogeneous circuit of depth four and of size $2^{O(\sqrt{d}\log(d)\log(s))}$. Using this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-05-19 Sébastien Tavenas

In this paper we present a deterministic polynomial time algorithm for testing if a symbolic matrix in non-commuting variables over $\mathbb{Q}$ is invertible or not. The analogous question for commuting variables is the celebrated…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Ankit Garg , Leonid Gurvits , Rafael Oliveira , Avi Wigderson

We prove a polynomial continued fraction identity for the constant $-\pi/4$, conjectured by the Ramanujan Machine project. The proof proceeds by explicitly solving the underlying second-order linear difference equation. We derive a…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Chao Wang

Circuit synthesis is the task of decomposing a given logical functionality into a sequence of elementary gates. It is (depth-)optimal if it is impossible to achieve the desired functionality with even shorter circuits. Optimal synthesis is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-05 Tom Peham , Nina Brandl , Richard Kueng , Robert Wille , Lukas Burgholzer

We show that the Identity Problem is decidable in polynomial time for finitely generated sub-semigroups of the group $\mathsf{UT}(4, \mathbb{Z})$ of $4 \times 4$ unitriangular integer matrices. As a byproduct of our proof, we also show the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Ruiwen Dong

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 investigate the complexity of uniform OR circuits and AND circuits of polynomial-size and depth. As their name suggests, OR circuits have OR gates as their computation gates, as well as the usual input, output and constant (0/1) gates.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-09-06 Niall Murphy , Damien Woods

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

Kayal, Saha and Tavenas [Theory of Computing, 2018] showed that for all large enough integers $n$ and $d$ such that $d\geq \omega(\log{n})$, any syntactic depth four circuit of bounded individual degree $\delta = o(d)$ that computes the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Suryajith Chillara

Generalized counting constraint satisfaction problems include Holant problems with planarity restrictions; polynomial-time algorithms for such problems include matchgates and matchcircuits, which are based on Pfaffians. In particular, they…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-08 Jason Morton , Jacob Turner