Linear-feature Fusion for arithmetic circuits #
Any linear feature that vanishes on the free inputs and named constants gives an interaction-span certificate: declare the feature of a product itself to be the new interaction created by that multiplication. Thus each multiplication gate can add at most one direction to the common feature span.
This deliberately weak product rule is useful for multi-output lower bounds. It permits arbitrary constants and cancellation and requires no special identity beyond linearity of the chosen feature.
Turn a linear feature annihilating inputs and constants into an interaction certificate. The interaction of a product is its whole feature, so no feature information is propagated from either operand.
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If the selected linear feature takes linearly independent values on m
requested outputs, any one circuit constructing them needs at least m
multiplications.