A Uniform Circuit Lower Bound for the Permanent

نویسندگان

  • Eric Allender
  • Vivek Gore
چکیده

We show that uniform families of ACC circuits of subexponential size cannot compute the permanent function. This also implies similar lower bounds for certain sets in PP. This is one of the very few examples of a lower bound in circuit complexity where the uniformity condition is essential; it is still unknown if there is any set in Ntime (2 n O(1) ) that does not have nonuniform ACC circuits.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • SIAM J. Comput.

دوره 23  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1994