Complexity of matrix problems

In representation theory, the problem of classifying pairs of matrices up to simultaneous similarity is used as a measure of complexity; classification problems containing it are called wild problems. We show in an explicit form that this problem contains all classification matrix problems given by quivers or posets. Then we prove that it does not contain (but is contained in) the problem of classifying three-valent tensors. Hence, all wild classification problems given by quivers or posets have the same complexity; moreover, a solution of any one of these problems implies a solution of each of the others. The problem of classifying three-valent tensors is more complicated.Comment: 24 page

Improved method for finding optimal formulae for bilinear maps in a finite field

In 2012, Barbulescu, Detrey, Estibals and Zimmermann proposed a new framework to exhaustively search for optimal formulae for evaluating bilinear maps, such as Strassen or Karatsuba formulae. The main contribution of this work is a new criterion to aggressively prune useless branches in the exhaustive search, thus leading to the computation of new optimal formulae, in particular for the short product modulo X 5 and the circulant product modulo (X 5 -- 1). Moreover , we are able to prove that there is essentially only one optimal decomposition of the product of 3 x 2 by 2 x 3 matrices up to the action of some group of automorphisms