Monotone Circuits for Matching Require Linear Depth
by
Ran Raz
,
Avi Wigderson
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@MISC{Raz_monotonecircuits,
author = {Ran Raz and Avi Wigderson},
title = {Monotone Circuits for Matching Require Linear Depth},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
We prove that monotone circuits computing the perfect matching function on n-vertex graphs require\Omega\Gamma n) depth. This implies an exponential gap between the depth of monotone and nonmonotone circuits.
