Danièle Gardy ; Alan Woods
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And/or tree probabilities of Boolean functions
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Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science,
January 1, 2005,
DMTCS Proceedings vol. AD, International Conference on Analysis of Algorithms
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https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.3355
And/or tree probabilities of Boolean functions
Authors: Danièle Gardy 1; Alan Woods 2
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Danièle Gardy;Alan Woods
1 Parallélisme, Réseaux, Systèmes, Modélisation
2 School of Mathematics and Statistics [Crawley, Perth]
We consider two probability distributions on Boolean functions defined in terms of their representations by $\texttt{and/or}$ trees (or formulas). The relationships between them, and connections with the complexity of the function, are studied. New and improved bounds on these probabilities are given for a wide class of functions, with special attention being paid to the constant function $\textit{True}$ and read-once functions in a fixed number of variables.