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Symmetric Determinantal Representation of Formulas and Weakly Skew Circuits
We deploy algebraic complexity theoretic techniques for constructing
symmetric determinantal representations of for00504925mulas and weakly skew
circuits. Our representations produce matrices of much smaller dimensions than
those given in the convex geometry literature when applied to polynomials
having a concise representation (as a sum of monomials, or more generally as an
arithmetic formula or a weakly skew circuit). These representations are valid
in any field of characteristic different from 2. In characteristic 2 we are led
to an almost complete solution to a question of B\"urgisser on the
VNP-completeness of the partial permanent. In particular, we show that the
partial permanent cannot be VNP-complete in a finite field of characteristic 2
unless the polynomial hierarchy collapses.Comment: To appear in the AMS Contemporary Mathematics volume on
Randomization, Relaxation, and Complexity in Polynomial Equation Solving,
edited by Gurvits, Pebay, Rojas and Thompso
On the polynomial parity argument complexity of the combinatorial nullstellensatz
The complexity class PPA consists of NP-search problems which are reducible to the parity principle in undirected graphs. It contains a wide variety of interesting problems from graph theory, combinatorics, algebra and number theory, but only a few of these are known to be complete in the class. Before this work, the known complete problems were all discretizations or combinatorial analogues of topological fixed point theorems.
Here we prove the PPA-completeness of two problems of radically different style. They are PPA-Circuit CNSS and PPA-Circuit Chevalley, related respectively to the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz and to the Chevalley-Warning Theorem over the two elements field GF(2). The input of these problems contain PPA-circuits which are arithmetic circuits with special symmetric properties that assure that the polynomials computed by them have always an even number of zeros. In the proof of the result we relate the multilinear degree of the polynomials to the parity of the maximal parse subcircuits that compute monomials with maximal multilinear degree, and we show that the maximal parse subcircuits of a PPA-circuit can be paired in polynomial time