A Lower Bound for the Size of Syntactically Multilinear Arithmetic Circuits

  • Authors:
  • Ran Raz;Amir Shpilka;Amir Yehudayoff

  • Affiliations:
  • ran.raz@weizmann.ac.il;shpilka@cs.technion.ac.il;amir.yehudayoff@weizmann.ac.il

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We construct an explicit polynomial $f(x_1,\dots,x_n)$, with coefficients in $\{0,1\}$, such that the size of any syntactically multilinear arithmetic circuit computing $f$ is at least $\Omega(n^{4/3}/\log^2n)$. The lower bound holds over any field.