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Decomposition of Boolean functions specified by cubes. (English) Zbl 1049.06011

The functions dealt with in this paper are multiple-output partially defined with don’t care conditions. Using a compact matrix representation, the authors study decompositions of the form \(f(x_1,\dots,x_n)=h(u_1,\dots,u_r,g(v_1,\dots,v_s))\), where \(\{u_1,\dots,u_r\}\) and \(\{v_1,\dots,v_s\}\) are subsets of \(\{x_1,\dots,x_n\}\). In particular the authors discuss decompositions with constraints on the number of arguments of the components.

MSC:

06E30 Boolean functions
94C10 Switching theory, application of Boolean algebra; Boolean functions (MSC2010)