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A random subsum checks all quadratic equations at once
Statement
Let be a canonical QUADEQ instance over variables and let fail at least one equation. For uniform , define Then the combined equation fails with probability exactly .
More generally, let and set and . The nonadaptive test that chooses and independently and uniformly, queries and (using the row-major tensor coordinates), and rejects when their sum differs from has rejection probability at least . It uses unbiased random bits and two symbol queries.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A canonical QUADEQ instance, a fixed candidate vector , and the fixed oracle table .
Each equation is after flattening its canonical coefficient matrix in row-major order. (Quadratic equations and tensor-code oracle tables)
The intended tensor oracle is ; for every tensor coordinate , it satisfies . (Quadratic equations and tensor-code oracle tables)
For every nonzero and uniform , . (Random binary subsums detect every nonzero discrepancy)
The two-query self-corrector at request chooses uniform and returns . (Two-query linear self-correction)
Proof
Put . Since fails at least one equation, . Linearity gives , so the combined equation fails exactly when ; by [F3] this occurs with probability exactly .
Fix any requested tensor coordinate . Let , so . Both and are uniform, and by [F4] the corrector returns . Unless one of these two points lies in , this equals by linearity of the intended oracle in [F2]; a union bound therefore gives correction failure probability at most , uniformly for every , including .
For the test, condition on each and set . By [F2] and [F1], on the event from step 1.1 the ideal value differs from ; whenever the correction in step 1.2 returns , the test rejects. Its failure probability conditional on each is at most , so averaging gives , without any independence assumption between rejection and correction errors.
The test samples bits for and bits for , computes both query locations before reading , and makes exactly two symbol queries; thus it is nonadaptive and uses one combined equation instead of querying all original equations. If , its premise is impossible; if , the tensor domain is a singleton and the corrector queries that same coordinate twice, as allowed by [F4].
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Sources
- Arora and Barak, Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach, §18.4.2, proof of Theorem 18.21 Step 3, printed p. 367 (standard reference, not scraped)