Almost Euclidean subspaces of ℓ1N VIA expander codes

  • Authors:
  • Venkatesan Guruswami;James R. Lee;Alexander Razborov

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science Department, 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;University of Chicago, Department of Computer Science, 1100 E 58th Street, 60637, Chicago, IL, USA and Steklov Mathematical Institute, Gubkina 8, 117966, GSP-1, Moscow, Russia;University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Box 352350, 98195, Seattle, WA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Combinatorica
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We give an explicit (in particular, deterministic polynomial time) construction of subspaces X⊆ℝN of dimension (1−o(1))N such that for every x∈X, $$(\log N)^{ - O(\log \log \log N)} \sqrt N \left\| x \right\|_2 \leqslant \left\| x \right\|_1 \leqslant \sqrt N \left\| x \right\|_2 $$. Through known connections between such Euclidean sections of ℓ1 and compressed sensing matrices, our result also gives explicit compressed sensing matrices for low compression factors for which basis pursuit is guaranteed to recover sparse signals. Our construction makes use of unbalanced bipartite graphs to impose local linear constraints on vectors in the subspace, and our analysis relies on expansion properties of the graph. This is inspired by similar constructions of error-correcting codes.