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TR09-011 | 31st January 2009 00:00

Poly-logarithmic independence fools AC0 circuits

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TR09-011
Authors: Mark Braverman
Publication: 5th February 2009 19:59
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Abstract:

We prove that poly-sized AC0 circuits cannot distinguish a poly-logarithmically independent distribution from the uniform one. This settles the 1990 conjecture by Linial and Nisan [LN90]. The only prior progress on the problem was by Bazzi [Baz07], who showed that O(log^2 n)-independent distributions fool poly-size DNF formulas. Razborov [Raz08] has later given a much simpler proof for Bazzi's theorem.



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