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Derandomizing Chernoff Bound with Union Bound with an Application to $k$-wise Independent Sets

Discrete Mathematics 2016-08-05 v1

Abstract

Derandomization of Chernoff bound with union bound is already proven in many papers. We here give another explicit version of it that obtains a construction of size that is arbitrary close to the probabilistic nonconstructive size. We apply this to give a new simple polynomial time constructions of almost kk-wise independent sets. We also give almost tight lower bounds for the size of kk-wise independent sets.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1608.01568,
  title  = {Derandomizing Chernoff Bound with Union Bound with an Application to $k$-wise Independent Sets},
  author = {Nader H. Bshouty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.01568},
  year   = {2016}
}
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