Logarithmic Depth Circuits for Algebraic Functions

Abstract

This paper describes circuits for computation of a large class of algebraic functions on polynomials, power series, and integers, for which, it has been a long standing open problem to compute in depth less than $\Omega (\log n)^2 $.Algebraic circuits assume unit cost for elemental addition and multiplication. This paper describes $O(\log n)$ depth algebraic circuits which given as input the coefficients of n degree polynomials (over an appropriate ring), compute the product of $n^{O(1)} $ polynomials, the symmetric functions, as well as division and interpolation of real polynomials. Also described are $O(\log n)$ depth algebraic circuits which are given as input the first n coefficients of a power series (over an appropriate ring) compute the product of $n^{O(1)} $ power series, as well as division, reciprocal and reversion of real power series.Furthermore this paper describes boolean circuits of depth $O(\log n(\log \log n))$ which, given n-bit binary numbers, compute the product of n numbers and integ...