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  • 标题:Algorithmic Meta Theorems for Circuit Classes of Constant and Logarithmic Depth
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  • 作者:Michael Elberfeld ; Andreas Jakoby ; Till Tantau
  • 期刊名称:Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity
  • 印刷版ISSN:1433-8092
  • 出版年度:2011
  • 卷号:2011
  • 出版社:Universität Trier, Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Computer-Forschung
  • 摘要:

    An algorithmic meta theorem for a logic and a class C of structures states that all problems expressible in this logic can be solved efficiently for inputs from C. The prime example is Courcelle's Theorem, which states that monadic second-order (MSO) definable problems are linear-time solvable on graphs of bounded tree width. We contribute new algorithmic meta theorems, which state that MSO-definable problems are (a) solvable by uniform constant-depth circuit families (AC0 for decision problems and TC0 for counting problems) when restricted to input structures of bounded tree depth and (b) solvable by uniform logarithmic-depth circuit families (NC1 for decision problems and #NC1 for counting problems) when a tree decomposition of bounded width in term representation is part of the input. Applications of our theorems include a TC0-completeness proof for the unary version of integer linear programming with a fixed number of equations and extensions of a recent result that counting the number of accepting paths of a visible pushdown automaton lies in #NC1. Our main technical contributions are a new tree automata model for unordered, unranked, labeled trees; a method for representing the tree automata's computations algebraically using convolution circuits; and a lemma on computing balanced width-3 tree decompositions of trees in TC0, which encapsulates most of the technical difficulties surrounding earlier results connecting tree automata and NC1.

  • 关键词:algorithmic meta theorem; circuit complexity; monadic second-order logic; tree depth; tree width
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