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Monomials in arithmetic circuits: Complete problems in the counting hierarchy

Computational Complexity 2012-03-28 v2

Abstract

We consider the complexity of two questions on polynomials given by arithmetic circuits: testing whether a monomial is present and counting the number of monomials. We show that these problems are complete for subclasses of the counting hierarchy which had few or no known natural complete problems. We also study these questions for circuits computing multilinear polynomials.

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@article{arxiv.1110.6271,
  title  = {Monomials in arithmetic circuits: Complete problems in the counting hierarchy},
  author = {Hervé Fournier and Guillaume Malod and Stefan Mengel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.6271},
  year   = {2012}
}
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