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Leakage-Resilient Hardness Equivalence to Logspace Derandomization

Computational Complexity 2024-07-01 v2

Abstract

Efficient derandomization has long been a goal in complexity theory, and a major recent result by Yanyi Liu and Rafael Pass identifies a new class of hardness assumption under which it is possible to perform time-bounded derandomization efficiently: that of ''leakage-resilient hardness.'' They identify a specific form of this assumption which is equivalent\textit{equivalent} to prP=prBPP\mathsf{prP} = \mathsf{prBPP}. In this paper, we pursue an equivalence to derandomization of prBPL\mathsf{prBP{\cdot}L} (logspace promise problems with two-way randomness) through techniques analogous to Liu and Pass. We are able to obtain an equivalence between a similar ''leakage-resilient hardness'' assumption and a slightly stronger statement than derandomization of prBPL\mathsf{prBP{\cdot}L}, that of finding ''non-no'' instances of ''promise search problems.''

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@article{arxiv.2312.14023,
  title  = {Leakage-Resilient Hardness Equivalence to Logspace Derandomization},
  author = {Yakov Shalunov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.14023},
  year   = {2024}
}

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19 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-28T13:58:56.125Z