Multi-linear formulas for permanent and determinant are of super-polynomial size

  • Authors:
  • Ran Raz

  • Affiliations:
  • Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

  • Venue:
  • STOC '04 Proceedings of the thirty-sixth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

An arithmetic formula is multi-linear if the polynomial computed by each of its sub-formulas is multi-linear. We prove that any multi-linear arithmetic formula for the permanent or the determinant of an n x n matrix is of size super-polynomial in n.Previously, super-polynomial lower bounds were not known (for any explicit function) even for the special case of multi-linear formulas of constant depth.