Algebraic Reductions of Knowledge
Algebraic Reductions of Knowledge
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10.1007/978-3-031-38551-3_21
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2022
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Abhiram Kothapalli;Bryan Parno
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作者:
Abhiram Kothapalli;Bryan Parno
We introducereductions of knowledge, a generalization of arguments of knowledge, which reduce checking knowledge of a witness in one relation to checking knowledge of a witness in another (simpler) relation. Reductions of knowledge unify a growing class of modern techniques as well as provide a compositional framework to modularly reason about individual steps in complex arguments of knowledge. As a demonstration, we simplify and unify recursive arguments over linear algebraic statements by decomposing them as a sequence of reductions of knowledge. To do so, we develop thetensor reduction of knowledge, which generalizes the central reductive step common to many recursive arguments. Underlying the tensor reduction of knowledge is a new information-theoretic reduction, which, for any modulesU,, andsuch that, reduces the task of evaluating a homomorphism inUto evaluating a homomorphism inand evaluating a homomorphism in.