On the Computational Complexity of Some Classical Equivalence Relations on Boolean Functions
Author(s) -
Bernd Borchert,
Desh Ranjan,
Frank Stephan
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
theory of computing systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.479
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1433-0490
pISSN - 1432-4350
DOI - 10.1007/s002240000109
Subject(s) - equivalence (formal languages) , equivalence relation , boolean function , computational complexity theory , mathematics , boolean expression , isomorphism (crystallography) , product term , boolean circuit , maximum satisfiability problem , discrete mathematics , boolean network , parity function , circuit complexity , two element boolean algebra , algebra over a field , algorithm , pure mathematics , chemistry , electrical engineering , crystal structure , electronic circuit , filtered algebra , crystallography , engineering
. The paper analyzes in terms of polynomial time many-one reductions the computational complexity of several natural equivalence relations on Boolean functions which derive from replacing variables by expressions, one of them is the Boolean isomorphism,relation. Most of these computational problems turn out to be between co-NP and6 , 2 .
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