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RANDOM
1997
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Combinatorial Consistency Lemma with Application to Proving the PCP Theorem
The current proof of the PCP Theorem (i.e., NP = PCP(log, O(1))) is very complicated. One source of difficulty is the technically involved analysis of low-degree tests. Here, we r...
Oded Goldreich, Shmuel Safra
STOC
2006
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
The PCP theorem by gap amplification
The PCP theorem [3, 2] says that every language in NP has a witness format that can be checked probabilistically by reading only a constant number of bits from the proof. The cele...
Irit Dinur