Isolating an Odd Number of Elements and Applications in Complexity Theory

  • Authors:
  • S. Gupta

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 7054 Haycock Road, Falls Church, VA 22043, USA sgupta@vt.edu, USA

  • Venue:
  • Theory of Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Naor and Naor [11] implicitly isolate an odd number of elements of a nonempty set of n -bit vectors. We perform a tighter analysis of their construction and obtain better probability bounds. Using this construction, we improve bounds on several results in complexity theory that originally used a construction due to Valiant and Vazirani [18]. In particular, we obtain better bounds on polynomials which approximate boolean functions; improve bounds on the running time of the 驴 P machine in Toda's result [16]; and improve bounds on the size of threshold circuits accepting languages accepted by AC 0 circuits.