Total-gate bounds for clique polynomials #
Schnorr separation controls additions in a clique-polynomial circuit. Exact support Fusion independently controls multiplications when the supports at multiplication inputs have bounded width. This module proves the elementary support side conditions for clique monomials and combines both certificates into a single lower bound on all nonconstant arithmetic gates.
Total degree of an ordered-clique exponent. Loops are included, so a
clique on k vertices has degree k * k.
A positive-size clique support contains no constant exponent.
For clique size at least two, no clique exponent is the exponent of one input variable.
A positive-size exact-semiring clique polynomial has no constant monomial.
When the clique size is at least two, the target support is disjoint from every individual input-variable support.
Exact-support Fusion gives a multiplication lower bound for the clique polynomial under the circuit-local support-width promise.
Addition and multiplication Fusion certificates combine into one lower bound for all nonconstant gates in a clique-polynomial circuit.
The combined lower bound also applies to raw circuit size, which may additionally count scalar-constant gates.
Middle-layer specialization of the combined total-gate lower bound.
The middle-layer clique family yields an explicit exponential support-width versus total-gate tradeoff.
Raw circuit size satisfies the same exponential support-width tradeoff.