Algebras with polynomial identities and computing the determinant

Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 352-361

  Chien, Steve ^a   Sinclair, Alistair ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLYNOMIALS;

ALGEBRAIC BRANCHING PROGRAM (ABP); GAUSSIAN ELIMINATION; NON-COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA; NON-COMMUTATIVE FORMULA;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

EID: 17744398477     PISSN: 02725428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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