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The Parity Language

We study a combinatorial property of the Parity language (the set of binary words with an even number of 1s). Let nn be a word size, Parityn\textit{Parity}_n be the subset of Parity of words of length nn, Parity‾n\overline{\textit{Parity}}_n be the subset of the complement of Parity of words of length nn. For two subset AA and BB, we say that BB has a limit in AA if there is a word u∈Au\in A such that for every position ii there exists a word vv in BB that matches uu on that position (ie. ui=viu_i = v_i). Let pp be any polynomial. Show: ∃A⊆Parityn, ∀A′⊆A, ∣A′∣≥∣A∣p(n),∃B⊆Parity‾n,\exists A \subseteq \textit{Parity}_n, \ \forall A'\subseteq A, \ |A'|\geq \frac{|A|}{p(n)}, \exists B \subseteq \overline{\textit{Parity}}_n, ∀B′⊆B, ∣B′∣≥∣B∣p(n), B′ has a limit in A′\forall B' \subseteq B, \ |B'|\geq \frac{|B|}{p(n)},\ B' \textit{ has a limit in } A' Note that the set BB can be chosen accordingly to the choice of A′A'. This property is useful while studying the expressive power of depth-3 boolean circuits in AC0\textit{AC}^0. A similar property has been proved for depth-3 circuits with bounded top fan-in in a recent LICS paper, and can be traced back to Hastad, Jukna and Pudlak. Here, the goal is to extend this combinatorial statement for a bigger class of languages, and for a more general notion of limit to describe precisely the regular languages definable thanks to depth-4 circuits with bounded top fan-in.

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