Title
Extractors for Varieties
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/s00037-011-0023-3
computational complexity
Keywords
DocType
Volume
randomness extraction,dimensional variety,considerable amount,field size,explicit extractor,unknown system,unknown algebraic variety,affine source,low degree polynomial,total size,Deterministic extractors,algebraic geometry,68W20
Conference
21
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
4
1420-8954
978-0-7695-3717-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
0.82
15
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zeev Dvir143730.85