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The XV International Conference "Problems of Theoretical Cybernetics"
On Full Checking Tests under Local Glueings of Variables in Boolean Functions
I. A. Kuzhetsov,
D. S. Romanov M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics
Abstract:
A local
$k$-fold glueing of variables in Boolean function
$f(\widetilde x^n)$ is a function obtained as a result of substitution instead of some
$k$ successive variables an arbitrary Boolean function depending on these variables (
$2\le k\le n$). Full checking tests under local
$k$-fold glueings of variables in Boolean functions
$f(\widetilde x^n)$ are studied in this paper. It is established that if
$n\to\infty$,
$(n-k)\to\infty$,
$k\to\infty$, then an asymptotics of Shannon function of the test length is
$2^{k-1}(n-k+2)$. Furthermore, let
$n\to\infty$,
$(n-k)\to\infty$,
$\gamma(n,k)\to\infty$,
$\gamma(n,k)=o(\log_2(n-k))$, therefore, a set of
$n$-tuples exists which is full checking test under local
$k$-fold glueings of variables in almost all Boolean functions
$f(\widetilde x^n)$ and whose power is not greater than
$\lceil\log_{4/3}(n-k+1)+\gamma(n,k)\rceil$. At last, under conditions
$n\to\infty$,
$2\le k\le n$,
$(n-k)\to\infty$, a length of minimal full checking test under local
$k$-fold glueings of variables is not greater than 3 for almost all Boolean functions
$f(\widetilde x^n)$.
Keywords:
Boolean function, test for inputs of circuits, local glueing of variables.
UDC:
519.718 Received: 02.03.2009