A larger lower bound on the OBDD complexity of the most significant bit of multiplication

  • Authors:
  • Beate Bollig

  • Affiliations:
  • LS2 Informatik, TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

  • Venue:
  • LATIN'10 Proceedings of the 9th Latin American conference on Theoretical Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2010

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Ordered binary decision diagrams (OBDDs) are one of the most common dynamic data structures for Boolean functions. The reachability problem, i.e., computing the set of nodes reachable from a predefined vertex s∈V in a digraph G=(V,E), is an important problem in computer-aided design, hardware verification, and model checking. Sawitzki (2006) has presented exponential lower bounds on the space complexity of a restricted class of symbolic OBDD-based algorithms for the reachability problem. Here, these lower bounds are improved by presenting a larger lower bound on the OBDD complexity of the most significant bit of integer multiplication.