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TR15-086 | 28th May 2015 14:23

On Embeddings of $\ell_1^k$ from Locally Decodable Codes

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TR15-086
Authors: Jop Briet
Publication: 28th May 2015 14:37
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Abstract:

We show that any $q$-query locally decodable code (LDC) gives a copy of $\ell_1^k$ with small distortion in the Banach space of $q$-linear forms on $\ell_{p_1}^N\times\cdots\times\ell_{p_q}^N$, provided $1/p_1 + \cdots + 1/p_q \leq 1$ and where $k$, $N$, and the distortion are simple functions of the code parameters. We exhibit the copies of $\ell_1^k$ by constructing a basis directly from "smooth" LDC decoders, thus bypassing a matching lemma often used in the LDC literature. Based on this, we give alternative proofs for known lower bounds on the length of 2-query LDCs. Using similar techniques, we reprove known lower bounds for larger $q$. We also discuss the relation with an alternative proof, due to Pisier, of a result of Naor, Regev, and the author on cotype properties of projective tensor products of $\ell_p$ spaces.



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