Expanders that Beat the Eigenvalue Bound: Explicit Construction and Applications (1993)
| Venue: | Combinatorica |
| Citations: | 84 - 25 self |
BibTeX
@ARTICLE{Wigderson93expandersthat,
author = {Avi Wigderson and David Zuckerman},
title = {Expanders that Beat the Eigenvalue Bound: Explicit Construction and Applications},
journal = {Combinatorica},
year = {1993},
volume = {19},
pages = {245--251}
}
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Abstract
For every n and 0 ! ffi ! 1, we construct graphs on n nodes such that every two sets of size n ffi share an edge, having essentially optimal maximum degree n 1\Gammaffi+o(1) . Using known and new reductions from these graphs, we explicitly construct: 1. A k round sorting algorithm using n 1+1=k+o(1) comparisons. 2. A k round selection algorithm using n 1+1=(2 k \Gamma1)+o(1) comparisons. 3. A depth 2 superconcentrator of size n 1+o(1) . 4. A depth k wide-sense nonblocking generalized connector of size n 1+1=k+o(1) . All of these results improve on previous constructions by factors of n\Omega\Gamma37 , and are optimal to within factors of n o(1) . These results are based on an improvement to the extractor construction of Nisan & Zuckerman: our algorithm extracts an asymptotically optimal number of random bits from a defective random source using a small additional number of truly random bits. 1







