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Bounded-width polynomial-size branching programs recognize exactly those languages in NC1

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                STOC '86: Proceedings of the eighteenth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
                November 1986
                461 pages
                ISBN:0897911938
                DOI:10.1145/12130

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