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arxiv: 1112.3925 · v2 · pith:THUIDEDWnew · submitted 2011-12-16 · 💻 cs.DS · cs.LO

Root finding with threshold circuits

classification 💻 cs.DS cs.LO
keywords circuitsrationalthresholduniformaccuracyalgorithmapplicationarithmetic
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We show that for any constant d, complex roots of degree d univariate rational (or Gaussian rational) polynomials---given by a list of coefficients in binary---can be computed to a given accuracy by a uniform TC^0 algorithm (a uniform family of constant-depth polynomial-size threshold circuits). The basic idea is to compute the inverse function of the polynomial by a power series. We also discuss an application to the theory VTC^0 of bounded arithmetic.

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