TY - GEN
T1 - Extractors for Varieties
AU - Dvir, Zeev
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - We study the task of randomness extraction from sources which are distributed uniformly on an unknown algebraic variety. In other words, we are interested in constructing a function (an extractor) whose output is close to uniform even if the input is drawn uniformly from the set of solutions of an unknown system of low degree polynomials. This problem generalizes the problem of extraction from affine sources which has drawn a considerable amount of interest lately. We present two constructions of explicit extractors for varieties. The first works for varieties of any size (including one dimensional varieties, or curves) and requires field size which is exponential in the overall dimension of the space. Our second extractor allows the field size to be polynomial in the degree of the equations defining the variety, but works only for varieties whose size is at least the square root of the total size of the space.
AB - We study the task of randomness extraction from sources which are distributed uniformly on an unknown algebraic variety. In other words, we are interested in constructing a function (an extractor) whose output is close to uniform even if the input is drawn uniformly from the set of solutions of an unknown system of low degree polynomials. This problem generalizes the problem of extraction from affine sources which has drawn a considerable amount of interest lately. We present two constructions of explicit extractors for varieties. The first works for varieties of any size (including one dimensional varieties, or curves) and requires field size which is exponential in the overall dimension of the space. Our second extractor allows the field size to be polynomial in the degree of the equations defining the variety, but works only for varieties whose size is at least the square root of the total size of the space.
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U2 - 10.1109/CCC.2009.7
DO - 10.1109/CCC.2009.7
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70350641078
SN - 9780769537177
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity
SP - 102
EP - 113
BT - Proceedings of the 2009 24th Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity, CCC 2009
T2 - 2009 24th Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity, CCC 2009
Y2 - 15 July 2009 through 18 July 2009
ER -