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In this paper, we prove super-polynomial lower bounds for the model of \emph{sum of ordered set-multilinear algebraic branching programs}, each with a possibly different ordering ($\sum \mathsf{smABP}$). Specifically, we give an explicit…
The Waring Problem over polynomial rings asks how to decompose a homogeneous polynomial $p$ of degree $d$ as a finite sum of $d$-{th} powers of linear forms. In this work we give an algorithm to obtain a real Waring decomposition of any…
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We study a nonlinear analogue of additive commutators, known as \textit{polynomial commutators}, defined by $p(ab) - p(ba)$ for a polynomial $p \in F[x]$ and elements $a, b$ in an algebra $R$ over a field $F$. Originally introduced by…
Proving super-polynomial size lower bounds for syntactic multilinear Algebraic Branching Programs(smABPs) computing an explicit polynomial is a challenging problem in Algebraic Complexity Theory. The order in which variables in…
Read-$k$ oblivious algebraic branching programs are a natural generalization of the well-studied model of read-once oblivious algebraic branching program (ROABPs). In this work, we give an exponential lower bound of $\exp(n/k^{O(k)})$ on…
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We prove a quantitative version of a result of Furstenberg and Deligne stating that the the diagonal of a multivariate algebraic power series with coefficients in a field of positive characteristic is algebraic. As a consequence, we obtain…
We prove the bivariate Cayley-Hamilton theorem, a powerful generalization of the classical Cayley-Hamilton theorem. The bivariate Cayley-Hamilton theorem has three direct corollaries that are usually proved independently: The classical…
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Expansive polynomials (whose roots are greater than 1 in modulus) often arise in dynamical systems and other computational problems. This paper examines the expansivity gap (the gap between 1 and the smallest modulus of the roots) of these…
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The classic rank-revealing QR factorization factorizes a matrix $A$ as $AP=QR$ where $P$ permutes the columns of $A$, $Q$ is an orthogonal matrix, and $R$ is upper triangular with non-increasing diagonal entries. This is called…
In this paper we study polynomial identity testing of sums of $k$ read-once algebraic branching programs ($\Sigma_k$-RO-ABPs), generalizing the work in (Shpilka and Volkovich 2008,2009), who considered sums of $k$ read-once formulas…
The Waring Problem over polynomial rings asks for how to decompose an homogeneous polynomial of degree $d$ as a finite sum of $d^{th}$ powers of linear forms. First, we give a constructive method to obtain a real Waring decomposition of any…
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