We initiate a study of ``universal locally testable codes" (universal-LTCs). These codes admit local tests for membership in numerous possible subcodes, allowing for testing properties of the encoded message. More precisely, a universal-LTC $C:\{0,1\}^k \to \{0,1\}^n$ for a family of functions $\mathcal{F} = \{ f_i : \{0,1\}^k \to \{0,1\} \}_{i ... more >>>

We extend the recent hierarchy results of Rossman, Servedio and
Tan \cite{rst15} to any $d \leq \frac {c \log n}{\log {\log n}}$
for an explicit constant $c$.

To be more precise, we prove that for any such $d$ there is a function
$F_d$ that is computable by a read-once formula ... more >>>

We strengthen existing evidence for the so-called "algebrization barrier". Algebrization --- short for algebraic relativization --- was introduced by Aaronson and Wigderson (AW) in order to characterize proofs involving arithmetization, simulation, and other "current techniques". However, unlike relativization, eligible statements under this notion do not seem to have basic closure ... more >>>