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Coalgebraic Tools for Randomness-Conserving Protocols

Logic in Computer Science 2021-10-26 v2 Formal Languages and Automata Theory Information Theory math.IT Probability

Abstract

We propose a coalgebraic model for constructing and reasoning about state-based protocols that implement efficient reductions among random processes. We provide basic tools that allow efficient protocols to be constructed in a compositional way and analyzed in terms of the tradeoff between state and loss of entropy. We show how to use these tools to construct various entropy-conserving reductions between processes.

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@article{arxiv.1807.02735,
  title  = {Coalgebraic Tools for Randomness-Conserving Protocols},
  author = {Dexter Kozen and Matvey Soloviev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.02735},
  year   = {2021}
}

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37 pages, including references. In submission to J. Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming