Monotone Circuits: One-Way Functions versus Pseudorandom Generators

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Abstract

We study the computability of one-way functions and pseudorandom generators by monotone circuits, showing a substantial gap between the two: On one hand, there exist one-way functions that are computable by (uniform) polynomial-size monotone functions, provided (of course) that one-way functions exist at all. On the other hand, no monotone function can be a pseudorandom generator.

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