A universal tree balancing theorem

Moses Ganardi; Markus Lohrey

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A universal tree balancing theorem

Moses Ganardi·Markus Lohrey

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We present a general framework for balancing expressions (terms) in form of so called tree straight-line programs. The latter can be seen as circuits over the free term algebra extended by contexts (terms with a hole) and the operations which insert terms/contexts into contexts. It is shown that for every term one can compute in DLOGTIME-uniform TC$^0$ a tree straight-line program of logarithmic depth and size $O(n/\log n)$. This allows reducing the term evaluation problem over an arbitrary algebra $\mathcal{A}$ to the term evaluation problem over a derived two-sorted algebra $\mathcal{F}(\mathcal{A})$. Several applications are presented: (i) an alternative proof for a recent result by Krebs, Limaye and Ludwig on the expression evaluation problem is given, (ii) it is shown that expressions for an arbitrary (possibly non-commutative) semiring can be transformed in DLOGTIME-uniform TC$^0$ into equivalent circuits of logarithmic depth and size $O(n/\log n)$, and (iii) a corresponding result for regular expressions is shown.

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Moses Ganardi, Markus Lohrey. 2017-04-27. A universal tree balancing theorem. https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.08705

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