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Main Authors: Garg, Abhibhav, Oliveira, Rafael, Sengupta, Akash Kumar
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14729
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  • We prove a non-linear Edelstein-Kelly theorem for polynomials of constant degree, fully settling a stronger form of Conjecture 30 in Gupta (2014), and generalizing the main result of Peleg and Shpilka (STOC 2021) from quadratic polynomials to polynomials of any constant degree. As a consequence of our result, we obtain constant rank bounds for depth-4 circuits with top fanin 3 and constant bottom fanin (denoted $Σ^{3}ΠΣΠ^{d}$ circuits) which compute the zero polynomial. This settles a stronger form of Conjecture 1 in Gupta (2014) when $k=3$, for any constant degree bound; additionally this also makes progress on Conjecture 28 in Beecken, Mittmann, and Saxena (Information \& Computation, 2013). Our rank bounds, when combined with Theorem 2 in Beecken, Mittmann, and Saxena (Information \& Computation, 2013) yield the first deterministic, polynomial time PIT algorithm for $Σ^{3}ΠΣΠ^{d}$ circuits.