A constructive proof presenting languages in $\Sigma_2^P$ that cannot be decided by circuit families of size $n^k$

Sunny Daniels

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A constructive proof presenting languages in $\Sigma_2^P$ that cannot be decided by circuit families of size $n^k$

Sunny Daniels

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As far as I know, at the time that I originally devised this result (1998), this was the first constructive proof that, for any integer $k$, there is a language in $\Sigma_2^P$ that cannot be simulated by a family of logic circuits of size $n^k$. However, this result had previously been proved non-constructively: see Cai and Watanabe [CW08] for more information on the history of this problem. This constructive proof is based upon constructing a language $\Gamma$ derived from the satisfiabiility problem, and a language $\Lambda_k$ defined by an alternating Turing machine. We show that the union of $\Gamma$ and $\Lambda_k$ cannot be simulated by circuits of size $n^k$.

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Sunny Daniels. 2014-08-27. A constructive proof presenting languages in $\Sigma_2^P$ that cannot be decided by circuit families of size $n^k$. https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.6334

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