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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.100
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-125070
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2020/12507/
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Sun, Xiaoming ; Sun, Yuan ; Wang, Jiaheng ; Wu, Kewen ; Xia, Zhiyu ; Zheng, Yufan

On the Degree of Boolean Functions as Polynomials over ℤ_m

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Abstract

Polynomial representations of Boolean functions over various rings such as ℤ and ℤ_m have been studied since Minsky and Papert (1969). From then on, they have been employed in a large variety of areas including communication complexity, circuit complexity, learning theory, coding theory and so on. For any integer m ≥ 2, each Boolean function has a unique multilinear polynomial representation over ring ℤ_m. The degree of such polynomial is called modulo-m degree, denoted as deg_m(⋅).
In this paper, we investigate the lower bound of modulo-m degree of Boolean functions. When m = p^k (k ≥ 1) for some prime p, we give a tight lower bound deg_m(f) ≥ k(p-1) for any non-degenerate function f:{0,1}ⁿ → {0,1}, provided that n is sufficient large. When m contains two different prime factors p and q, we give a nearly optimal lower bound for any symmetric function f:{0,1}ⁿ → {0,1} that deg_m(f) ≥ n/{2+1/(p-1)+1/(q-1)}.

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@InProceedings{sun_et_al:LIPIcs:2020:12507,
  author =	{Xiaoming Sun and Yuan Sun and Jiaheng Wang and Kewen Wu and Zhiyu Xia and Yufan Zheng},
  title =	{{On the Degree of Boolean Functions as Polynomials over ℤ_m}},
  booktitle =	{47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020)},
  pages =	{100:1--100:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-138-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{168},
  editor =	{Artur Czumaj and Anuj Dawar and Emanuela Merelli},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2020/12507},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-125070},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.100},
  annote =	{Keywords: Boolean function, polynomial, modular degree, Ramsey theory}
}

Keywords: Boolean function, polynomial, modular degree, Ramsey theory
Collection: 47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020)
Issue Date: 2020
Date of publication: 29.06.2020

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