Non-commutative arithmetic circuits: Depth reduction and size lower bounds

Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 209, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 47-86

  Allender, Eric ^a,c   Jiao, Jia ^b   Mahajan, Meena ^c   Vinay, V ^c,d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Arkansas at Little Rock   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Arithmetic circuits; AuxPDAs; Depth Complexity; Non commutative computation; Skew circuits

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002507290     PISSN: 03043975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3975(97)00227-2     Document Type: Article

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