Arithmetizing classes around NC1and L

  • Authors:
  • Nutan Limaye;Meena Mahajan;B. V. Raghavendra Rao

  • Affiliations:
  • The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India;The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India;The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India

  • Venue:
  • STACS'07 Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Theoretical aspects of computer science
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The parallel complexity class NC1 has many equivalent models such as bounded width branching programs. Caussinus et.al[10] considered arithmetizations of two of these classes, #NC1 and #BWBP. We further this study to include arithmetization of other classes. In particular, we show that counting paths in branching programs over visibly pushdown automata has the same power as #BWBP, while counting proof-trees in logarithmic width formulae has the same power as #NC1. We also consider polynomial-degree restrictions of SCi, denoted sSCi, and show that the Boolean class sSC1 lies between NC1 and L, whereas sSC0 equals NC1. On the other hand, #sSC0 contains #BWBP and is contained in FL, and #sSC1 contains #NC1 and is in SC2. We also investigate some closure properties of the newly defined arithmetic classes.