Some Applications of Coding Theory in Computational Complexity
摘要
Error-correcting codes and related combinatorial constructs play an important role in several recent (and old) results in computational complexity theory. In this paper we survey results on locally-testable and locally-decodable error-correcting codes, and their applications to complexity theory and to cryptography. Locally decodable codes are error-correcting codes with sub-linear time error-correcting algorithms. They are related to private information retrieval (a type of cryptographic protocol), and they are used in average-case complexity and to construct ``hard-core predicates'' for one-way permutations. Locally testable codes are error-correcting codes with sub-linear time error-detection algorithms, and they are the combinatorial core of probabilistically checkable proofs.
引用
@article{arxiv.cs/0409044,
title = {Some Applications of Coding Theory in Computational Complexity},
author = {Luca Trevisan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0409044},
year = {2007}
}