Abstract
A test proposed by Rubinfield and Sudan is studied where the strongest previously known connection states that a function passes the test with probability δ for some δ>7/8 if the function has agreement ≈δ with a polynomial of degree d. A strong analysis which shows that the preceding statement is true for δ≪0.5 is presented. The analysis uses a version of Hilbert irreducibility, a tool used in the factoring of multivariate polynomials. One of the consequences of this study was a self tester/corrector for any buggy program that (supposedly) computes a polynomial over a finite field.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 485-495 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Conference Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing |
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| State | Published - 1997 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1997 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing - El Paso, TX, USA Duration: May 4 1997 → May 6 1997 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Software