On Some Recent Advances in Algebraic Complexity (Invited Talk)

Author Amir Shpilka



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Amir Shpilka
  • School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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Amir Shpilka. On Some Recent Advances in Algebraic Complexity (Invited Talk). In 40th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 182, p. 6:1, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2020.6

Abstract

Algebraic complexity is the field studying the intrinsic difficulty of algebraic problems in an algebraic model of computation, most notably arithmetic circuits. It is a very natural model of computation that attracted a large amount of research in the last few decades, partially due to its simplicity and elegance, but mostly because of its importance. Being a more structured model than Boolean circuits, one could hope that the fundamental problems of theoretical computer science, such as separating P from NP, deciding whether P = BPP and more, will be easier to solve for arithmetic circuits. In this talk I will give the basic definitions, explain the main questions and how they relate to their Boolean counterparts, and discuss what I view as promising approaches to tackling the most fundamental problems in the field.

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  • Theory of computation → Algebraic complexity theory
Keywords
  • Algebraic Complexity
  • Arithmetic Circuits
  • Polynomial Identity Testing

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