Extractors for Three Uneven-Length Sources

  • Authors:
  • Anup Rao;David Zuckerman

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, ,;Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin,

  • Venue:
  • APPROX '08 / RANDOM '08 Proceedings of the 11th international workshop, APPROX 2008, and 12th international workshop, RANDOM 2008 on Approximation, Randomization and Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and Techniques
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We construct an efficient 3-source extractor that requires one of the sources to be significantly shorter than the min-entropy of the other two sources. Our extractors work even when the longer, n-bit sources have min-entropy n茂戮驴(1)and the shorter source has min-entropy log10n. Previous constructions for independent sources with min-entropy n茂戮驴required 茂戮驴(1/茂戮驴) sources [Rao06]. Our construction relies on lossless condensers [GUV07] based on Parvaresh-Vardy codes [PV05], as well as on a 2-source extractor for a block source and general source [BRSW06].