The Parity Language
We study a combinatorial property of the Parity language (the set of binary words with an even number of 1s). Let be a word size, be the subset of Parity of words of length , be the subset of the complement of Parity of words of length . For two subset and , we say that has a limit in if there is a word such that for every position there exists a word in that matches on that position (ie. ). Let be any polynomial. Show: Note that the set can be chosen accordingly to the choice of . This property is useful while studying the expressive power of depth-3 boolean circuits in . 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.
