On the circuit complexity of perfect hashing

Oded Goldreich, Avi Wigderson

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Abstract

We consider the size of circuits that perfectly hash an arbitrary subset S⊂{0,1} n of cardinality 2 k into {0,1} m . We observe that, in general, the size of such circuits is exponential in 2k-m, and provide a matching upper bound.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationStudies in Complexity and Cryptography
Subtitle of host publicationMiscellanea on the Interplay between Randomness and Computation
EditorsOded Goldreich
Chapter4
Pages26-29
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6650 LNCS

Keywords

  • Circuit Complexity
  • Perfect Hashing

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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