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arxiv: 1305.0651 · v1 · pith:IHGXYGKSnew · submitted 2013-05-03 · 🧮 math.CO · math.PR

Associative and commutative tree representations for Boolean functions

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keywords treesbooleanformulasprobabilityconnectorsfunctionslabelledtree
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Since the 90's, several authors have studied a probability distribution on the set of Boolean functions on $n$ variables induced by some probability distributions on formulas built upon the connectors $And$ and $Or$ and the literals $\{x_{1}, \bar{x}_{1}, \dots, x_{n}, \bar{x}_{n}\}$. These formulas rely on plane binary labelled trees, known as Catalan trees. We extend all the results, in particular the relation between the probability and the complexity of a Boolean function, to other models of formulas: non-binary or non-plane labelled trees (i.e. Polya trees). This includes the natural tree class where associativity and commutativity of the connectors $And$ and $Or$ are realised.

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