Title :
Discrepancy sets and pseudorandom generators for combinatorial rectangles
Author :
Armoni, Roy ; Saks, Michael ; Wigderson, Avi ; Shiyu Zhou
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, Israel
Abstract :
A common subproblem of DNF approximate counting and derandomizing RL is the discrepancy problem for combinatorial rectangles. We explicitly construct a poly(n)-size sample space that approximates the volume of any combinatorial rectangle in [n]n to within o(1) error. The construction extends the previous techniques for the analogous hitting set problem, most notably via discrepancy preserving reductions
Keywords :
combinatorial mathematics; computational geometry; random number generation; DNF approximate counting; combinatorial rectangles; common subproblem; discrepancy problem; discrepancy sets; poly(n)-size sample space; pseudorandom generators; Circuits; Computer science; Distributed computing; Mathematics; Polynomials;
Conference_Titel :
Foundations of Computer Science, 1996. Proceedings., 37th Annual Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Burlington, VT
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7594-2
DOI :
10.1109/SFCS.1996.548500