An $\cal NC$ Algorithm for Evaluating Monotone Planar Circuits

  • Authors:
  • A. L. Delcher;S. Rao Kosaraju

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Computing
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Goldschlager first established that a special case of the monotone planar circuit problem can be solved by a Turing machine in $O(\log^2 n)$ space. Subsequently, Dymond and Cook refined the argument and proved that the same class can be evaluated in $O(\log^2 n)$ time with a polynomial number of processors. In this paper, we prove that the general monotone planar circuit value problem can be evaluated in $O(\log^4 n)$ time with a polynomial number of processors, settling an open problem posed by Goldschlager and Parberry.