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Negation-Limited Formulas

Authors Siyao Guo, Ilan Komargodski



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Siyao Guo
Ilan Komargodski

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Siyao Guo and Ilan Komargodski. Negation-Limited Formulas. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 40, pp. 850-866, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2015.850

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We give an efficient structural decomposition theorem for formulas that depends on their negation complexity and demonstrate its power with the following applications. We prove that every formula that contains t negation gates can be shrunk using a random restriction to a formula of size O(t) with the shrinkage exponent of monotone formulas. As a result, the shrinkage exponent of formulas that contain a constant number of negation gates is equal to the shrinkage exponent of monotone formulas. We give an efficient transformation of formulas with t negation gates to circuits with log(t) negation gates. This transformation provides a generic way to cast results for negation-limited circuits to the setting of negation-limited formulas. For example, using a result of Rossman (CCC'15), we obtain an average-case lower bound for formulas of polynomial-size on n variables with n^{1/2-epsilon} negations. In addition, we prove a lower bound on the number of negations required to compute one-way permutations by polynomial-size formulas.
Keywords
  • Negation complexity
  • De Morgan formulas
  • Shrinkage

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