@article{2501b0b04b80491b9f13234709d2be0d,
title = "Breaking the e-soundness bound of the linearity test over gf(2)",
abstract = "For Boolean functions that are e-far from the set of linear functions, we study the lower bound on the rejection probability (denoted by REJ(ε)) of the linearity test suggested by Blum, Luby, and Rubinfeld [J. Comput. System Sci., 47 (1993), pp. 549-595]. This problem is arguably the most fundamental and extensively studied problem in property testing of Boolean functions. The previously best bounds for REJ(ε) were obtained by Bellare et al. [IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory,42 (1996), pp. 1781-1795]. They used Fourier analysis to show that REJ(ε) ≥ e for every 0 ≤ ε ≤ 1/2. They also conjectured that this bound might not be tight for e's which are close to 1/2. In this paper we show that this indeed is the case. Specifically, we improve the lower bound of REJ(ε) ≥ e by an additive constant that depends only on e: REJ(ε) ≥ ε + min{1376ε3(l - 2ε) 12, 1/4ε(l - 2ε)4}, for every 0 ≤ ε ≤ 1 /2. Our analysis is based on a relationship between REJ(ε) and the weight distribution of a coset code of the Hadamard code. We use both Fourier analysis and coding theory tools to estimate this weight distribution.",
keywords = "Coding theory, Fourier analysis, Linearity test, Property testing",
author = "Tali Kaufman and Simon Litsyn and Nino Xie",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1137/080715548",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "39",
pages = "1988--2003",
journal = "SIAM Journal on Computing",
issn = "0097-5397",
publisher = "Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Publications",
number = "5",
}