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Constructing lossless conductors using zigzag product - a doubt

Reference - this survey: https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~nati/PAPERS/expander_survey.pdf I am reading the section on constructing lossless conductors using a bipartite variant of zigzag product (section 10,...
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Strong seeded randomness extractors with low entropy loss

I would like to implement a strong seeded randomness extractor for flat sources as a part of my project. Most of the literature on seeded extractors is concentrated on minimizing seed length. ...
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Motivation for randomness extractors

I'm a maths masters student exploring how results in the geometry of finite fields, such as the finite field Kakeya conjecture, applies to randomness extractors. I'm not a computer scientist, and must ...
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Extractor with somewhat corrupted seeds

In conditional min-entropy extractor, there is a joint distribution $(X,Y)$ such that if the average min-entropy (for some appropriate notion of it) ${\rm H}_\infty(X|Y)$ is large, then ${\rm Ext}(X, ...
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Applications of small Kakeya sets over finite fields

It was proved by Dvir that a Kakeya set in $\mathbb{F}_q^n$ has size at least $q^n/n!$, a bound which was later improved to $q^n/2^n$. For $n = 2$ and $q$ odd the exact bound is $q(q+1)/2 + (q-1)/2$ ...
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deterministic randomness extractor and privacy

Suppose $X$ is a message which takes values on the set $\{x_1, \dots, x_m\}$ with probability distribution $P_X$. We transmit the message $X$ over the channel $P_{Y|X}$ which outputs $Y$ taking ...
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Strong extractors with reusable seeds

I have convinced myself of the following: For every $(k,\epsilon^2\hspace{.005 in})$-strong extractor Ext, for every distribution $X$, if $\;\; k\leq$ $\:H_{\infty}$$(\hspace{.01 in}X\hspace{.015 in})...
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Are there any "two-sided" strong blenders?

My question is related to explicit extractors and strong blenders. We can define explicit strong blender in a straight forward way. I want to know if there are any known explicit strong blenders $\...
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Running a BPP algorithm with a half-random, half-adversarial string

Consider the following model: an n-bit string r=r1...rn is chosen uniformly at random. Next, each index i∈{1,...,n} is put into a set A with independent probability 1/2. Finally, an adversary ...
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Pseudorandom object yielding shrinkage in $\ell_p$ norm?

Extractors have the following property: For a random variable $X$ of min-entropy $k$ and a seed $Y$, denote the output of an $(k,\epsilon)$-extractor by $\mathrm{Ext}(X,Y)$. Then $\|\mathrm{Ext}(X,Y)-...
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From Extractors to Pseudorandom Generators?

Luca Trevisan showed how many constructions of pseudorandom generators can in fact be thought of as extractor constructions: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~luca/pubs/extractor-full.pdf Is there a ...
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