Revisiting Alphabet Reduction in Dinur’s PCP
(2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Guruswami, V., Opršal, J., Sandeep, S., Byrka, J., & Meka, R. (2020, December). Revisiting Alphabet Reduction in Dinur’s PCP. Presented at Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2020)
Dinur’s celebrated proof of the PCP theorem alternates two main steps in several iterations: gap amplification to increase the soundness gap by a large constant factor (at the expense of much larger alphabet size), and a composition step that brings... Read More about Revisiting Alphabet Reduction in Dinur’s PCP.