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Abteilung V

 
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Simulating Threshold Circuits by Majority Circuits
Mikael Goldmann, Marek Karpinski
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We prove that a single threshold gate can be simulated by an explicit polynomial size depth 2 majority circuit. In general we show that a depth $d$ threshold circuit can be simulated uniformly by a majority circuit of depth $d+1$. Goldmann, H{\aa}stad and Razborov showed in [9] that a non-uniform simulation exists. Our construction answers two open questions posed in [9]: we give an explicit construction whereas [9] uses a randomized existence argument, and we show that such a simulation is possible even if the depth $d$ grows with the number of variables $n$ (the simulation in [9] gives polynomial size circuits only when $d$ is constant).

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