Theory of linear and integer programming
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On the degree of Boolean functions as real polynomials
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Perceptrons, PP, and the polynomial hierarchy
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Quantum lower bounds by polynomials
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Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry
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On Computation and Communication with Small Bias
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Quantum and Classical Strong Direct Product Theorems and Optimal Time-Space Tradeoffs
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Agnostically Learning Halfspaces
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The Polynomial Method in Quantum and Classical Computing
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The Intersection of Two Halfspaces Has High Threshold Degree
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Quantum search on bounded-error inputs
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Quantum communication complexity of block-composed functions
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The multiparty communication complexity of set disjointness
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Making polynomials robust to noise
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The quantum query complexity of AC0
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Faster private release of marginals on small databases
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The ε-approximate degree of a Boolean function f: {−1, 1}n→{−1, 1} is the minimum degree of a real polynomial that approximates f to within ε in the ℓ∞ norm. We prove several lower bounds on this important complexity measure by explicitly constructing solutions to the dual of an appropriate linear program. Our first result resolves the ε-approximate degree of the two-level AND-OR tree for any constant ε0. We show that this quantity is $\Theta(\sqrt{n})$, closing a line of incrementally larger lower bounds [3,11,21,30,32]. The same lower bound was recently obtained independently by Sherstov using related techniques [25]. Our second result gives an explicit dual polynomial that witnesses a tight lower bound for the approximate degree of any symmetric Boolean function, addressing a question of Špalek [34]. Our final contribution is to reprove several Markov-type inequalities from approximation theory by constructing explicit dual solutions to natural linear programs. These inequalities underly the proofs of many of the best-known approximate degree lower bounds, and have important uses throughout theoretical computer science.