On the bit extraction problem

  • Authors:
  • J. Friedman

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Comput. Sci., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA

  • Venue:
  • SFCS '92 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

Consider a coloring of the n-dimensional Boolean cube with c=2/sup s/ colors in such a way that every k-dimensional subcube is equicolored, i.e. each color occurs the same number of times. The author shows that for such a coloring one necessarily has (k-1)/nor= theta /sub c/=(c/2-1)/(c-1). This resolves the 'bit extraction' or 't-resilient functions' problem (also a special case of the privacy amplification problem) in many cases, such as c-1/n, proving that XOR type colorings are optimal, and always resolves this question to within c/4 in determining the optimal value of k (for any fixed n and c). He also studies the problem of finding almost equicolored colorings when (k-1)/n