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Fall 2020

Reduction From Non-Unique Games to Boolean Unique Games

Monday, December 14th, 2020, 11:30 am12:30 pm

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Speaker: 

Dana Moshkovitz (University of Texas, Austin)

Location: 

Zoom

We reduce the problem of proving a "Boolean Unique Games Conjecture" (with gap 1-delta vs. 1-C*delta, for any C>1, and sufficiently small delta>0) to the problem of proving a PCP Theorem for a certain non-unique game. In a previous work, Khot and Moshkovitz suggested a candidate reduction (i.e., without a proof of soundness). The current work is the first to provide a reduction along with a proof of soundness. The non-unique game we reduce from is similar to non-unique games for which PCP theorems are known. 

Our proof relies on a new, tight, local testing theorem for the low degree part of functions f:R^n-->R in Gaussian space: We show that the low degree part of the restriction of f to a random hyperplane h is extremely close (O(1/n) Euclidean distance) to the restriction of the low degree part of f to h with high probability.

This is joint work with Ronen Eldan from the Weizmann Institute.