Robust local testability of tensor products of LDPC codes

Irit Dinur*, Madhu Sudan, Avi Wigderson

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Abstract

Given two binary linear codes R and C, their tensor product R ⊗ C consists of all matrices with rows in R and columns in C. We analyze the "robustness" of the following test for this code (suggested by Ben-Sasson and Sudan [6]): Pick a random row (or column) and check if the received word is in R (or C). Robustness of the test implies that if a matrix M is far from R ⊗ C, then a significant fraction of the rows (or columns) of M are far from codewords of R (or C). We show that this test is robust, provided one of the codes is what we refer to as smooth. We show that expander codes and locally-testable codes are smooth. This complements recent examples of P. Valiant [13] and Coppersmith and Rudra [9] of codes whose tensor product is not robustly testable.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationApproximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques - 9th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2006 a
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages304-315
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)3540380442, 9783540380443
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event9th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2006 and 10th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation, RANDOM 2006 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 28 Aug 200630 Aug 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4110 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2006 and 10th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation, RANDOM 2006
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period28/08/0630/08/06

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