Efficient Checking of Polynomials and Proofs and the Hardness of Approximation Problems

This book is based on the author's PhD thesis which was selected as the winning thesis of the 1993 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Competition. The author improved the presentation and included the progress achieved since the thesis was approved by the University of California at Berkeley. This work...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sudan, Madhu (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1995, 1995
Edition:1st ed. 1995
Series:Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • On the resilience of polynomials
  • Low-degree tests
  • Transparent proofs and the class PCP
  • Hardness of approximations
  • Conclusions