Functional equations, constraints, definability of function classes, and functions of Boolean variables
The paper deals with classes of functions of several variables defined on an arbitrary set A and taking values in a possibly different set B. Definability of function classes by functional equations is shown to be equivalent to definability by relational constraints, generalizing a fact established...
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2007
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| Sorozat: | Acta cybernetica
18 No. 1 |
| Kulcsszavak: | Számítástechnika, Kibernetika |
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| Online Access: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/12804 |
| Tartalmi kivonat: | The paper deals with classes of functions of several variables defined on an arbitrary set A and taking values in a possibly different set B. Definability of function classes by functional equations is shown to be equivalent to definability by relational constraints, generalizing a fact established by Pippenger in the case A = B = {0,1}. Conditions for a class of functions to be definable by constraints of a particular type are given in terms of stability under certain functional compositions. This leads to a correspondence between functional equations with particular algebraic syntax and relational constraints with certain invariance properties with respect to clones of operations on a given set. When A = {0,1} and B is a commutative ring, such B-valued functions of n variables are represented by multilinear polynomials in n indeterminates in B[X1,..., Xn], Functional equations are given to describe classes of field-valued functions of a specified bounded degree. Classes of Boolean and pseudo-Boolean functions are covered as particular cases. |
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| Terjedelem/Fizikai jellemzők: | 61-75 |
| ISSN: | 0324-721X |