{"title":"The polynomial method in circuit complexity","authors":"R. Beigel","doi":"10.1109/SCT.1993.336538","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The basic techniques for using polynomials in complexity theory are examined, emphasizing intuition at the expense of formality. The focus is on the connections to constant-depth circuits, at the expense of polynomial-time Turing machines. The closure properties, upper bounds, and lower bounds obtained by this approach are surveyed.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":331616,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings of the Eigth Annual Structure in Complexity Theory Conference","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1993-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"186","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"[1993] Proceedings of the Eigth Annual Structure in Complexity Theory Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCT.1993.336538","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The basic techniques for using polynomials in complexity theory are examined, emphasizing intuition at the expense of formality. The focus is on the connections to constant-depth circuits, at the expense of polynomial-time Turing machines. The closure properties, upper bounds, and lower bounds obtained by this approach are surveyed.<>