2005 Tech Reports


FTP Technical Report 2005/1

AUTHOR: Bruce Litow

TITLE:

NP union co-NP has Polynomial Circuit Size

ABSTRACT:

We show that NP union co-NP, the first level of the polynomial time hierarchy, has polynomial circuit size.


FTP Technical Report 2005/2

AUTHOR: Bruce Litow

TITLE:

Rational Weight Finite Automaton Bounded-Length Behavior Equality

ABSTRACT:

It has been shown that deciding whether the length n bounded behaviors of two arbitrary rational weight finite automata are unequal is in random nO(1) time. Here we refine that result and show that on an algebraic number conjecture it is in fact in nO(1) time. This result can be applied to show that deciding whether two unambiguous context-free grammars generate the same set of length n words is also in nO(1) time on the conjecture.


FTP Technical Report 2005/3

AUTHORS: Bruce Litow and David Laing

TITLE:

A Census Algorithm for Chinese Remainder Pseudorank with Experimental Results

ABSTRACT:

This paper describes a polynomial time census algorithm for chinese remainder pseudorank. That is, we can rapidly estimate the density of integers with either good or bad pseudorank. The pseudorank of an integer is an important approximation technique that makes possible efficient parallel computation of the standard order relation on integers in chinese remainder (also known as multiresidue) representation. In this paper we also describe an implementation of the algorithm in C and report on its performance, and on the census information for chinese remainder representation systems up to 989-bit integers.


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