@Article{ABA:01:SICOMP, author = "Amir M. Ben-Amram and Zvi Galil", title = "Topological Lower Bounds on Algebraic Random Access Machines", journal = "SIAM J. Comput.", volume = "31", pages = "722--761", year = "2001", keywords = "lower bounds, algebraic random access machines, real-number RAM, algebraic computation tree", summary = "The method of proving lower bounds for decision problems by topological component counting, previously used with respect to algebraic computation trees, is extended in this work to random access machines with operations $\{+,-,\times,/\}$ or $\{+,-,\times,\lfloor\;\rfloor\}$." }