• DocumentCode
    1992702
  • Title

    Some consequences of our failure to prove non-linear lower bounds on explicit functions

  • Author

    Lipton, Richard J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    28 Jun- 1 Jul 1994
  • Firstpage
    79
  • Lastpage
    87
  • Abstract
    Investigates the consequences of assuming that no explicit function has non-polynomial size Boolean circuit complexity. There are many consequences of this assumption. For example, it immediately proves that P does not equal NP. It also has ramifications for the length of certain interactive proofs
  • Keywords
    Boolean functions; computational complexity; NP complexity class; explicit functions; interactive proof lengths; nonlinear lower bounds; nonpolynomial size Boolean circuit complexity; Arithmetic; Boolean functions; Circuits; Complexity theory; Computer science; Mathematics; Turing machines;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Structure in Complexity Theory Conference, 1994., Proceedings of the Ninth Annual
  • Conference_Location
    Amsterdam
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-5670-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SCT.1994.315815
  • Filename
    315815