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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.24
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-155359
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2021/15535/
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Jalan, Akhil ; Moshkovitz, Dana

Near-Optimal Cayley Expanders for Abelian Groups

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Abstract

We give an efficient deterministic algorithm that outputs an expanding generating set for any finite abelian group. The size of the generating set is close to the randomized construction of Alon and Roichman [Alon and Roichman, 1994], improving upon various deterministic constructions in both the dependence on the dimension and the spectral gap. By obtaining optimal dependence on the dimension we resolve a conjecture of Azar, Motwani, and Naor [Azar et al., 1998] in the affirmative. Our technique is an extension of the bias amplification technique of Ta-Shma [Ta-Shma, 2017], who used random walks on expanders to obtain expanding generating sets over the additive group of ?₂ⁿ. As a consequence, we obtain (i) randomness-efficient constructions of almost k-wise independent variables, (ii) a faster deterministic algorithm for the Remote Point Problem, (iii) randomness-efficient low-degree tests, and (iv) randomness-efficient verification of matrix multiplication.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{jalan_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.24,
  author =	{Jalan, Akhil and Moshkovitz, Dana},
  title =	{{Near-Optimal Cayley Expanders for Abelian Groups}},
  booktitle =	{41st IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2021)},
  pages =	{24:1--24:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-215-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{213},
  editor =	{Boja\'{n}czy, Miko{\l}aj and Chekuri, Chandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2021/15535},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-155359},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.24},
  annote =	{Keywords: Cayley graphs, Expander walks, Epsilon-biased sets, Derandomization}
}

Keywords: Cayley graphs, Expander walks, Epsilon-biased sets, Derandomization
Collection: 41st IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2021)
Issue Date: 2021
Date of publication: 29.11.2021

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