Boolean complexity classes vs. their arithmetic analogs

Anna Gál*, Avi Wigderson

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Abstract

This paper provides logspace and small circuit depth analogs of the result of Valiant and Vazirani, which is a randomized (or nonuniform) reduction from NP to its arithmetic analog ⊕ P. We show a similar randomized reduction between the Boolean classes NL and semiunbounded fan-in Boolean circuits and their arithmetic counterparts. These reductions are based on the Isolation Lemma of Mulmuley, Vazirani, and Vazirani. Combinatorially our results can be viewed as simple (logspace) transformations of existential quantifiers into counting quantifiers in graphs and shallow circuits.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)99-111
Number of pages13
JournalRandom Structures and Algorithms
Volume9
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1996

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