A Self-Tester for Linear Functions over the Integers with an Elementary Proof of Correctness

We present simple, self-contained proofs of correctness for algorithms for linearity testing and program checking of linear functions on finite subsets of integers represented as n-bit numbers. In addition we explore a generalization of self-testing to homomorphisms on a multidimensional vector spac...

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Main Authors: Devadas, Sheela, Rubinfeld, Ronitt, Devadas, Srinivas
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer US 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103636
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8253-7714
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4353-7639
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Summary:We present simple, self-contained proofs of correctness for algorithms for linearity testing and program checking of linear functions on finite subsets of integers represented as n-bit numbers. In addition we explore a generalization of self-testing to homomorphisms on a multidimensional vector space. We show that our self-testing algorithm for the univariate case can be directly generalized to vector space domains. The number of queries made by our algorithms is independent of domain size.