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TR-086-87
Monotone Bipartite Graph Properties are Evasive |
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| Authors: | Yao, Andrew Chi-Chih |
| Date: | April 1987 |
| Pages: | 7 |
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A Boolean function P from {0,1}t into {0,1} is said to be evasive, if every decision tree algorithm for evaluating P must examine at least t arguments in the worst case. It was known that any nontrivial monotone bipartite graph property on vertex set V x W must be evasive, when |V| x |W| is a power of a prime number. In this paper, we prove that every nontrivial monotone bipartite graph property is evasive. |
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