Size-depth tradeoffs for algebraic formulae

  • Authors:
  • Nader H. Bshouty;Richard Cleve;Wayne Eberly

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SFCS '91 Proceedings of the 32nd annual symposium on Foundations of computer science
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

Some tradeoffs between the size and depth of algebraic formulas are proved. It is shown that, for any fixed in 0, any algebraic formula of size S can be converted into an equivalent formula of depth O(log S) and size O(S/sup 1+ in /). This result is an improvement over previously known results where, to obtain the same depth bound, the formula size is Omega (S/sup alpha /), with alpha or=2.