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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2015.497
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-53204
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2015/5320/
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Bhangale, Amey ; Saptharishi, Ramprasad ; Varma, Girish ; Venkat, Rakesh

On Fortification of Projection Games

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Abstract

A recent result of Moshkovitz [Moshkovitz14] presented an ingenious method to provide a completely elementary proof of the Parallel Repetition Theorem for certain projection games via a construction called fortification. However, the construction used in [Moshkovitz14] to fortify arbitrary label cover instances using an arbitrary extractor is insufficient to prove parallel repetition. In this paper, we provide a fix by using a stronger graph that we call fortifiers. Fortifiers are graphs that have both l_1 and l_2 guarantees on induced distributions from large subsets.

We then show that an expander with sufficient spectral gap, or a bi-regular extractor with stronger parameters (the latter is also the construction used in an independent update [Moshkovitz15] of [Moshkovitz14] with an alternate argument), is a good fortifier. We also show that using a fortifier (in particular l_2 guarantees) is necessary for obtaining the robustness required for fortification.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{bhangale_et_al:LIPIcs:2015:5320,
  author =	{Amey Bhangale and Ramprasad Saptharishi and Girish Varma and Rakesh Venkat},
  title =	{{On Fortification of Projection Games}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2015)},
  pages =	{497--511},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-89-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{40},
  editor =	{Naveen Garg and Klaus Jansen and Anup Rao and Jos{\'e} D. P. Rolim},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2015/5320},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-53204},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2015.497},
  annote =	{Keywords: Parallel Repetition, Fortification}
}

Keywords: Parallel Repetition, Fortification
Collection: Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2015)
Issue Date: 2015
Date of publication: 13.08.2015

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