TY - GEN
T1 - Bi-lipschitz bijection between the boolean cube and the hamming ball
AU - Benjamini, Itai
AU - Cohen, Gil
AU - Shinkar, Igor
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2014/12/7
Y1 - 2014/12/7
N2 - We construct a bi-Lipschitz bijection from the Boolean cube to the Hamming ball of equal volume.More precisely, we show that for all even n ∈ N there exists an explicit bijection such that for every x ≠ y {0,1}n it holds that where dist(.,.) denotes the Hamming distance.In particular, this implies that the Hamming ball is bi-Lipschitz transitive. This result gives a strong negative answer to an open problem of Lovett and Viola [CC 2012], who raised the question in the context of sampling distributions in low-level complexity classes.The conceptual implication is that the problem of proving lower bounds in the context ofsampling distributions requires ideas beyond thesensitivity-based structural results of Boppana [IPL 97]. We study the mapping further and show that it (and its inverse) are computable in DLOGTIME-uniform TC0, but not in AC0. Moreover, we prove that is 'approximately local' in the sense that all but the last output bit of are essentially determined by a single input bit.
AB - We construct a bi-Lipschitz bijection from the Boolean cube to the Hamming ball of equal volume.More precisely, we show that for all even n ∈ N there exists an explicit bijection such that for every x ≠ y {0,1}n it holds that where dist(.,.) denotes the Hamming distance.In particular, this implies that the Hamming ball is bi-Lipschitz transitive. This result gives a strong negative answer to an open problem of Lovett and Viola [CC 2012], who raised the question in the context of sampling distributions in low-level complexity classes.The conceptual implication is that the problem of proving lower bounds in the context ofsampling distributions requires ideas beyond thesensitivity-based structural results of Boppana [IPL 97]. We study the mapping further and show that it (and its inverse) are computable in DLOGTIME-uniform TC0, but not in AC0. Moreover, we prove that is 'approximately local' in the sense that all but the last output bit of are essentially determined by a single input bit.
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U2 - 10.1109/FOCS.2014.17
DO - 10.1109/FOCS.2014.17
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84920051729
T3 - Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS
SP - 81
EP - 89
BT - Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 55th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2014
Y2 - 18 October 2014 through 21 October 2014
ER -