We prove that for all positive integer $k$ and for all
sufficiently small $\epsilon >0$ if $n$ is sufficiently large
then there is no Boolean (or $2$-way) branching program of size
less than $2^{\epsilon n}$ which for all inputs
$X\subseteq \lbrace 0,1,...,n-1\rbrace $ computes in time $kn$
the parity of ... more >>>