J. Bruck, REFLECTIONS ON REPRESENTATIONS OF SETS OF BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS BY COMMUTATIVE RINGS BY SMOLENSKY,ROMAN, Computational complexity, 6(3), 1997, pp. 209-212
The paper by Roman Smolensky is a nice example of the art of studying
mathematical structures that are, on the one hand, motivated by real c
omputational problems but are, on the other hand, not obviously relate
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