DocumentCode
2244363
Title
Subquadratic simulations of circuits by branching programs
Author
Cai, Jin-Yi ; Lipton, Richard J.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA
fYear
1989
fDate
30 Oct-1 Nov 1989
Firstpage
568
Lastpage
573
Abstract
Boolean circuits and their simulations by bounded-width branching programs are considered. It is shown that every NC1 circuit of size s can be simulated by a constant-width branching program of length s 1.811. . .. Some related group-theoretic results are presented
Keywords
Boolean algebra; switching circuits; Boolean circuits; bounded-width; branching programs; group-theoretic results; simulations of circuits; subquadratic simulations; Binary decision diagrams; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Computer science; Computer simulation; Contracts; Encoding; Hardware; Polynomials; Upper bound;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Foundations of Computer Science, 1989., 30th Annual Symposium on
Conference_Location
Research Triangle Park, NC
Print_ISBN
0-8186-1982-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/SFCS.1989.63536
Filename
63536
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