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TR15-121 | 25th July 2015 17:38

#### Extractors for Affine Sources with Polylogarithmic Entropy

TR15-121
Authors: Xin Li
Publication: 25th July 2015 20:50
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Abstract:

We give the first explicit construction of deterministic extractors for affine sources over $F_2$, with entropy $k \geq \log^C n$ for some large enough constant $C$, where $n$ is the length of the source. Previously the best known results are by Bourgain \cite{Bourgain07}, Yehudayoff \cite{Yehudayoff10} and Li \cite{Li11a}, which require the affine source to have entropy at least $\Omega(n/\sqrt{\log \log n})$. Our extractor outputs one bit with error $n^{-\Omega(1)}$.

Our construction is obtained by reducing an affine source to a non-oblivious bit-fixing source, and then applying a deterministic extractor for such sources in the recent breakthrough result of two-source extractors by Chattopadhyay and Zuckerman \cite{CZ15}. To reduce an affine source to a non-oblivious bit-fixing source, we adapt the alternating extraction based approach in previous work on independent source extractors \cite{Li13b} to the affine setting.

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