Abstract
We introduce and construct a pseudorandom object which we call a local correlation breaker (LCB). Informally speaking, an LCB is a function that gets as input a sequence of r (arbitrarily correlated) random variables and an independent weak-source. The output of the LCB is a sequence of r random variables with the following property. If the i'th input random variable is uniform then the i'th output variable is uniform even given a bounded number of any other output variables. That is, an LCB uses the weak-source to break local correlations between random variables. Our construction of LCBs has applications to three-source extractors, mergers with weak-seeds, and a variant of non-malleable extractors, that we introduce.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2015 IEEE 56th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2015 |
Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
Pages | 845-862 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Volume | 2015-December |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781467381918 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 11 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 56th IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2015 - Berkeley, United States Duration: Oct 17 2015 → Oct 20 2015 |
Other
Other | 56th IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2015 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Berkeley |
Period | 10/17/15 → 10/20/15 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Computer Science(all)