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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2011.127
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-33501
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Grenet, Bruno ; Koiran, Pascal ; Portier, Natacha ; Strozecki, Yann

The Limited Power of Powering: Polynomial Identity Testing and a Depth-four Lower Bound for the Permanent

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Abstract

Polynomial identity testing and arithmetic circuit lower bounds are two central questions in algebraic complexity theory. It is an intriguing fact that these questions are actually related.
One of the authors of the present paper has recently proposed
a "real tau-conjecture" which is inspired by this connection.
The real tau-conjecture states that the number of real roots of
a sum of products of sparse univariate polynomials should be
polynomially bounded. It implies a superpolynomial lower bound on the
size of arithmetic circuits computing the permanent polynomial.

In this paper we show that the real tau-conjecture holds true for a restricted class of sums of products of sparse polynomials.
This result yields lower bounds for a restricted class of depth-4 circuits: we show that polynomial size circuits from this class cannot compute the permanent, and we also give a deterministic polynomial identity testing algorithm for the same class of circuits.

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@InProceedings{grenet_et_al:LIPIcs:2011:3350,
  author =	{Bruno Grenet and Pascal Koiran and Natacha Portier and Yann Strozecki},
  title =	{{The Limited Power of Powering: Polynomial Identity Testing and a Depth-four Lower Bound for the Permanent}},
  booktitle =	{IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2011)},
  pages =	{127--139},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-34-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2011},
  volume =	{13},
  editor =	{Supratik Chakraborty and Amit Kumar},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2011/3350},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-33501},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2011.127},
  annote =	{Keywords: Algebraic Complexity, Sparse Polynomials, Descartes' Rule of Signs, Lower Bound for the Permanent, Polynomial Identity Testing}
}

Keywords: Algebraic Complexity, Sparse Polynomials, Descartes' Rule of Signs, Lower Bound for the Permanent, Polynomial Identity Testing
Collection: IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2011)
Issue Date: 2011
Date of publication: 01.12.2011

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