Balancing Bounded Treewidth Circuits

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-13182-0_21zbMATH Open1285.68066arXiv0910.1427OpenAlexW1987462672MaRDI QIDQ3569746FDOQ3569746

Authors: Maurice Jansen, Jayalal Sarma M. N. 

Publication date: 22 June 2010

Published in: Computer Science – Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Algorithmic tools for graphs of small treewidth are used to address questions in complexity theory. For both arithmetic and Boolean circuits, it is shown that any circuit of size $n^{O(1)}$ and treewidth $O(lo{g}^{i}n)$ can be simulated by a circuit of width $O(lo{g}^{i+1}n)$ and size $n^c$, where $c=O(1)$, if $i=0$, and $c=O(loglogn)$ otherwise. For our main construction, we prove that multiplicatively disjoint arithmetic circuits of size $n^{O(1)}$ and treewidth $k$ can be simulated by bounded fan-in arithmetic formulas of depth $O(k^{2}logn)$. From this we derive the analogous statement for syntactically multilinear arithmetic circuits, which strengthens a theorem of Mahajan and Rao. As another application, we derive that constant width arithmetic circuits of size $n^{O(1)}$ can be balanced to depth $O(logn)$, provided certain restrictions are made on the use of iterated multiplication. Also from our main construction, we derive that Boolean bounded fan-in circuits of size $n^{O(1)}$ and treewidth $k$ can be simulated by bounded fan-in formulas of depth $O(k^{2}logn)$. This strengthens in the non-uniform setting the known inclusion that $S{C}^{0}subseteqN{C}^1$. Finally, we apply our construction to show that {sc reachability} for directed graphs of bounded treewidth is in $LogDCFL$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.1427

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25) Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science (68R10) Complexity classes (hierarchies, relations among complexity classes, etc.) (68Q15)

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