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A Circuit Complexity Approach to Transductions

  • Michaël CadilhacEmail author
  • Andreas Krebs
  • Michael Ludwig
  • Charles Paperman
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Abstract

Low circuit complexity classes and regular languages exhibit very tight interactions that shade light on their respective expressiveness. We propose to study these interactions at a functional level, by investigating the deterministic rational transductions computable by constant-depth, polysize circuits. To this end, a circuit framework of independent interest that allows variable output length is introduced. Relying on it, there is a general characterization of the set of transductions realizable by circuits. It is then decidable whether a transduction is definable in \(\mathrm{AC}^0\) and, assuming a well-established conjecture, the same for \(\mathrm{ACC}^0\).

Keywords

Regular Language Surjective Morphism Input Length Output Gate Output Length 
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Acknowledgment

We thank Michael Blondin, Michael Hahn, and the referees.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Michaël Cadilhac
    • 1
    Email author
  • Andreas Krebs
    • 1
  • Michael Ludwig
    • 1
  • Charles Paperman
    • 2
  1. 1.Wilhelm Schickard InstitutUniversität TübingenTübingenGermany
  2. 2.University of Warsaw and Warsaw Center of Mathematics and Computer ScienceWarsawPoland

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