A note on monotone complexity and the rank of matrices

Information Processing Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 321-326

  Gál, Anna ^a   Pudlák, Pavel ^b  

^a University of Texas at Austin ^*  (United States)

^b MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Computational complexity; Lower bounds; Span programs

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

SPAN PROGRAMS;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 0042468042     PISSN: 00200190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0190(03)00334-X     Document Type: Article

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