On semiring complexity of Schur polynomials
Computational Complexity
2018-05-22 v2 Combinatorics
Abstract
Semiring complexity is the version of arithmetic circuit complexity that allows only two operations: addition and multiplication. We show that when the number of variables is fixed, the semiring complexity of a Schur polynomial is ; here is the largest part of the partition .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1608.05043,
title = {On semiring complexity of Schur polynomials},
author = {Sergey Fomin and Dima Grigoriev and Dorian Nogneng and Eric Schost},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.05043},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
22 pages, final version, to appear in Computational Complexity. Section 4 rewritten per referee's suggestion, to make the argument more explicit