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Improved Constructions of Two-Source Extractors

Computational Complexity 2015-08-06 v1

Abstract

In a recent breakthrough \cite{CZ15}, Chattopadhyay and Zuckerman gave an explicit two-source extractor for min-entropy klogCnk \geq \log^C n for some large enough constant CC. However, their extractor only outputs one bit. In this paper, we improve the output of the two-source extractor to kΩ(1)k^{\Omega(1)}, while the error remains nΩ(1)n^{-\Omega(1)}. Our improvement is obtained by giving a better extractor for (q,t,γ)(q, t, \gamma) non-oblivious bit-fixing sources, which can output tΩ(1)t^{\Omega(1)} bits instead of one bit as in \cite{CZ15}.

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@article{arxiv.1508.01115,
  title  = {Improved Constructions of Two-Source Extractors},
  author = {Xin Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.01115},
  year   = {2015}
}
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