Bravely, moderately: A common theme in four recent Works

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Abstract

We highlight a common theme in four relatively recent works that establish remarkable results by an iterative approach. Starting from a trivial construct, each of these works applies an ingeniously designed sequence of iterations that yields the desired result, which is highly non-trivial. Furthermore, in each iteration, the construct is modified in a relatively moderate manner. The four works we refer to are 1 the polynomial-time approximation of the permanent of non-negative matrices (by Jerrum, Sinclair, and Vigoda, 33rd STOC, 2001); 2 the iterative (Zig-Zag) construction of expander graphs (by Reingold, Vadhan, and Wigderson, 41st FOCS, 2000); 3 the log-space algorithm for undirected connectivity (by Reingold, 37th STOC, 2005); 4 and, the alternative proof of the PCP Theorem (by Dinur, 38th STOC, 2006).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationStudies in Complexity and Cryptography
Subtitle of host publicationMiscellanea on the Interplay between Randomness and Computation
EditorsOded Goldreich
Chapter26
Pages373-389
Number of pages17
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6650 LNCS

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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