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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.49

Pseudorandomness of Expander Walks via Fourier Analysis on Groups

Authors: Fernando Granha Jeronimo, Tushant Mittal, and Sourya Roy

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 353, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025)

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A long line of work has studied the pseudorandomness properties of walks on expander graphs. A central goal is to measure how closely the distribution over n-length walks on an expander approximates the uniform distribution of n-independent elements. One approach to do so is to label the vertices of an expander with elements from an alphabet Σ, and study closeness of the mean of functions over Σⁿ, under these two distributions. We say expander walks ε-fool a function if the expander walk mean is ε-close to the true mean. There has been a sequence of works studying this question for various functions, such as the XOR function, the AND function, etc. We show that: - The class of symmetric functions is O(|Σ|λ)-fooled by expander walks over any generic λ-expander, and any alphabet Σ . This generalizes the result of Cohen, Peri, Ta-Shma [STOC'21] which analyzes it for |Σ| = 2, and exponentially improves the previous bound of O(|Σ|^O(|Σ|) λ), by Golowich and Vadhan [CCC'22]. Moreover, if the expander is a Cayley graph over ℤ_|Σ|, we get a further improved bound of O(√{|Σ|} λ). Morever, when Σ is a finite group G, we show the following for functions over Gⁿ: - The class of symmetric class functions is O({√|G|}/D λ}-fooled by expander walks over "structured" λ-expanders, if G is D-quasirandom. - We show a lower bound of Ω(λ) for symmetric functions for any finite group G (even for "structured" λ-expanders). - We study the Fourier spectrum of a class of non-symmetric functions arising from word maps, and show that they are exponentially fooled by expander walks. Our proof employs Fourier analysis over general groups, which contrasts with earlier works that have studied either the case of ℤ₂ or ℤ. This enables us to get quantitatively better bounds even for unstructured sets.

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Fernando Granha Jeronimo, Tushant Mittal, and Sourya Roy. Pseudorandomness of Expander Walks via Fourier Analysis on Groups. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 353, pp. 49:1-49:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{jeronimo_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.49,
  author =	{Jeronimo, Fernando Granha and Mittal, Tushant and Roy, Sourya},
  title =	{{Pseudorandomness of Expander Walks via Fourier Analysis on Groups}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025)},
  pages =	{49:1--49:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-397-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{353},
  editor =	{Ene, Alina and Chattopadhyay, Eshan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.49},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-244157},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.49},
  annote =	{Keywords: Expander graphs, pseudorandomness}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2022.87

Symbolic Determinant Identity Testing and Non-Commutative Ranks of Matrix Lie Algebras

Authors: Gábor Ivanyos, Tushant Mittal, and Youming Qiao

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 215, 13th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2022)

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One approach to make progress on the symbolic determinant identity testing (SDIT) problem is to study the structure of singular matrix spaces. After settling the non-commutative rank problem (Garg-Gurvits-Oliveira-Wigderson, Found. Comput. Math. 2020; Ivanyos-Qiao-Subrahmanyam, Comput. Complex. 2018), a natural next step is to understand singular matrix spaces whose non-commutative rank is full. At present, examples of such matrix spaces are mostly sporadic, so it is desirable to discover them in a more systematic way. In this paper, we make a step towards this direction, by studying the family of matrix spaces that are closed under the commutator operation, that is, matrix Lie algebras. On the one hand, we demonstrate that matrix Lie algebras over the complex number field give rise to singular matrix spaces with full non-commutative ranks. On the other hand, we show that SDIT of such spaces can be decided in deterministic polynomial time. Moreover, we give a characterization for the matrix Lie algebras to yield a matrix space possessing singularity certificates as studied by Lovász (B. Braz. Math. Soc., 1989) and Raz and Wigderson (Building Bridges II, 2019).

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Gábor Ivanyos, Tushant Mittal, and Youming Qiao. Symbolic Determinant Identity Testing and Non-Commutative Ranks of Matrix Lie Algebras. In 13th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 215, pp. 87:1-87:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{ivanyos_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2022.87,
  author =	{Ivanyos, G\'{a}bor and Mittal, Tushant and Qiao, Youming},
  title =	{{Symbolic Determinant Identity Testing and Non-Commutative Ranks of Matrix Lie Algebras}},
  booktitle =	{13th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2022)},
  pages =	{87:1--87:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-217-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{215},
  editor =	{Braverman, Mark},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2022.87},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-156837},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2022.87},
  annote =	{Keywords: derandomization, polynomial identity testing, symbolic determinant, non-commutative rank, Lie algebras}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2022.88

Explicit Abelian Lifts and Quantum LDPC Codes

Authors: Fernando Granha Jeronimo, Tushant Mittal, Ryan O'Donnell, Pedro Paredes, and Madhur Tulsiani

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 215, 13th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2022)

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For an abelian group H acting on the set [𝓁], an (H,𝓁)-lift of a graph G₀ is a graph obtained by replacing each vertex by 𝓁 copies, and each edge by a matching corresponding to the action of an element of H. Expanding graphs obtained via abelian lifts, form a key ingredient in the recent breakthrough constructions of quantum LDPC codes, (implicitly) in the fiber bundle codes by Hastings, Haah and O'Donnell [STOC 2021] achieving distance Ω̃(N^{3/5}), and in those by Panteleev and Kalachev [IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 2021] of distance Ω(N/log(N)). However, both these constructions are non-explicit. In particular, the latter relies on a randomized construction of expander graphs via abelian lifts by Agarwal et al. [SIAM J. Discrete Math 2019]. In this work, we show the following explicit constructions of expanders obtained via abelian lifts. For every (transitive) abelian group H ⩽ Sym(𝓁), constant degree d ≥ 3 and ε > 0, we construct explicit d-regular expander graphs G obtained from an (H,𝓁)-lift of a (suitable) base n-vertex expander G₀ with the following parameters: ii) λ(G) ≤ 2√{d-1} + ε, for any lift size 𝓁 ≤ 2^{n^{δ}} where δ = δ(d,ε), iii) λ(G) ≤ ε ⋅ d, for any lift size 𝓁 ≤ 2^{n^{δ₀}} for a fixed δ₀ > 0, when d ≥ d₀(ε), or iv) λ(G) ≤ Õ(√d), for lift size "exactly" 𝓁 = 2^{Θ(n)}. As corollaries, we obtain explicit quantum lifted product codes of Panteleev and Kalachev of almost linear distance (and also in a wide range of parameters) and explicit classical quasi-cyclic LDPC codes with wide range of circulant sizes. Items (i) and (ii) above are obtained by extending the techniques of Mohanty, O'Donnell and Paredes [STOC 2020] for 2-lifts to much larger abelian lift sizes (as a byproduct simplifying their construction). This is done by providing a new encoding of special walks arising in the trace power method, carefully "compressing" depth-first search traversals. Result (iii) is via a simpler proof of Agarwal et al. [SIAM J. Discrete Math 2019] at the expense of polylog factors in the expansion.

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Fernando Granha Jeronimo, Tushant Mittal, Ryan O'Donnell, Pedro Paredes, and Madhur Tulsiani. Explicit Abelian Lifts and Quantum LDPC Codes. In 13th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 215, pp. 88:1-88:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{jeronimo_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2022.88,
  author =	{Jeronimo, Fernando Granha and Mittal, Tushant and O'Donnell, Ryan and Paredes, Pedro and Tulsiani, Madhur},
  title =	{{Explicit Abelian Lifts and Quantum LDPC Codes}},
  booktitle =	{13th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2022)},
  pages =	{88:1--88:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-217-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{215},
  editor =	{Braverman, Mark},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2022.88},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-156846},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2022.88},
  annote =	{Keywords: Graph lifts, expander graphs, quasi-cyclic LDPC codes, quantum LDPC codes}
}

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