3-query locally decodable codes of subexponential length

  • Authors:
  • Klim Efremenko

  • Affiliations:
  • Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot , Israel

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the forty-first annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Locally Decodable Codes (LDC) allow one to decode any particular symbol of the input message by making a constant number of queries to a codeword, even if a constant fraction of the codeword is damaged. In a recent work [Yek08] Yekhanin constructs a 3-query LDC with sub-exponential length of size exp(exp(O((log n)/(log log n)))). However, this construction requires a conjecture that there are infinitely many Mersenne primes. In this paper we give the first unconditional constant query LDC construction with subexponantial codeword length. In addition our construction reduces codeword length. We give construction of 3-query LDC with codeword length exp(exp(O(√{log n log log n ))). Our construction could also be extended to higher number of queries. We give a 2r-query LDC with length of exp(exp(O(☂[r] log n (log log n)r-1))).