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Restricted nondeterministic read-once branching programs and an exponential lower bound for integer multiplication

Beate Bollig (2001)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications

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Branching programs are a well established computation model for Boolean functions, especially read-once branching programs have been studied intensively. In this paper the expressive power of nondeterministic read-once branching programs, more precisely the class of functions representable in polynomial size, is investigated. For that reason two restricted models of nondeterministic read-once branching programs are defined and a lower bound method is presented. Furthermore, the first...

Complexity theoretical results on nondeterministic graph-driven read-once branching programs

Beate Bollig (2003)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications

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Branching programs are a well-established computation model for boolean functions, especially read-once branching programs (BP1s) have been studied intensively. Recently two restricted nondeterministic (parity) BP1 models, called nondeterministic (parity) graph-driven BP1s and well-structured nondeterministic (parity) graph-driven BP1s, have been investigated. The consistency test for a BP-model M is the test whether a given BP is really a BP of model M . Here it is proved that the consistency...