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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The classification of Boolean functions using the Rademacher-Walsh transform

Anderson, Neil Arnold 31 August 2007 (has links)
When considering Boolean switching functions with n input variables, there are 2^(2^n) possible functions that can be realized by enumerating all possible combinations of input values and arrangements of output values. As is expected with double exponential growth, the number of functions becomes unmanageable very quickly as n increases. This thesis develops a new approach for computing the spectral classes where the spectral operations are performed by manipulating the truth tables rather than first moving to the spectral domain to manipulate the spectral coefficients. Additionally, a generic approach is developed for modeling these spectral operations within the functional domain. The results of this research match previous for n < or = to 4 but differ when n=5 is considered. This research indicates with a high level of confidence that there are in fact 15 previously unidentified classes, for a total of 206 spectral classes needed to represent all 2^(2^n) Boolean functions.

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