Fourier sparsity, spectral norm, and the Log-rank conjecture

We study Boolean functions with sparse Fourier coefficients or small spectral norm, and show their applications to the Log-rank Conjecture for XOR functions f(x\oplus y) --- a fairly large class of functions including well studied ones such as Equality and Hamming Distance. The rank of the communication matrix M_f for such functions is exactly the Fourier sparsity of f. Let d be the F2-degree of f and D^CC(f) stand for the deterministic communication complexity for f(x\oplus y). We show that 1. D^CC(f) = O(2^{d^2/2} log^{d-2} ||\hat f||_1). In particular, the Log-rank conjecture holds for XOR functions with constant F2-degree. 2. D^CC(f) = O(d ||\hat f||_1) = O(\sqrt{rank(M_f)}\logrank(M_f)). We obtain our results through a degree-reduction protocol based on a variant of polynomial rank, and actually conjecture that its communication cost is already \log^{O(1)}rank(M_f). The above bounds also hold for the parity decision tree complexity of f, a measure that is no less than the communication complexity (up to a factor of 2). Along the way we also show several structural results about Boolean functions with small F2-degree or small spectral norm, which could be of independent interest. For functions f with constant F2-degree: 1) f can be written as the summation of quasi-polynomially many indicator functions of subspaces with \pm-signs, improving the previous doubly exponential upper bound by Green and Sanders; 2) being sparse in Fourier domain is polynomially equivalent to having a small parity decision tree complexity; 3) f depends only on polylog||\hat f||_1 linear functions of input variables. For functions f with small spectral norm: 1) there is an affine subspace with co-dimension O(||\hat f||_1) on which f is a constant; 2) there is a parity decision tree with depth O(||\hat f||_1 log ||\hat f||_0).Comment: v2: Corollary 31 of v1 removed because of a bug in the proof. (Other results not affected.

Implicit White-Box Implementations: White-Boxing ARX Ciphers

Since the first white-box implementation of AES published twenty years ago, no significant progress has been made in the design of secure implementations against an attacker with full control of the device. Designing white-box implementations of existing block ciphers is a challenging problem, as all proposals have been broken. Only two white-box design strategies have been published this far: the CEJO framework, which can only be applied to ciphers with small S-boxes, and self-equivalence encodings, which were only applied to AES. In this work we propose implicit implementations, a new design of white-box implementations based on implicit functions, and we show that current generic attacks that break CEJO or self-equivalence implementations are not successful against implicit implementations. The generation and the security of implicit implementations are related to the self-equivalences of the non-linear layer of the cipher, and we propose a new method to obtain self-equivalences based on the CCZ-equivalence. We implemented this method and many other functionalities in a new open-source tool BoolCrypt, which we used to obtain for the first time affine, linear, and even quadratic self-equivalences of the permuted modular addition. Using the implicit framework and these self-equivalences, we describe for the first time a practical white-box implementation of a generic Addition-Rotation-XOR (ARX) cipher, and we provide an open-source tool to easily generate implicit implementations of ARX ciphers

기하학적으로 정밀한 비선형 구조물의 아이소-지오메트릭 형상 설계 민감도 해석

학위논문 (박사)-- 서울대학교 대학원 : 공과대학 조선해양공학과, 2019. 2. 조선호.In this thesis, a continuum-based analytical adjoint configuration design sensitivity analysis (DSA) method is developed for gradient-based optimal design of curved built-up structures undergoing finite deformations. First, we investigate basic invariance property of linearized strain measures of a planar Timoshenko beam model which is combined with the selective reduced integration and B-bar projection method to alleviate shear and membrane locking. For a nonlinear structural analysis, geometrically exact beam and shell structural models are basically employed. A planar Kirchhoff beam problem is solved using the rotation-free discretization capability of isogeometric analysis (IGA) due to higher order continuity of NURBS basis function whose superior per-DOF(degree-of-freedom) accuracy over the conventional finite element analysis using Hermite basis function is verified. Various inter-patch continuity conditions including rotation continuity are enforced using Lagrage multiplier and penalty methods. This formulation is combined with a phenomenological constitutive model of shape memory polymer (SMP), and shape programming and recovery processes of SMP structures are simulated. Furthermore, for shear-deformable structures, a multiplicative update of finite rotations by an exponential map of a skew-symmetric matrix is employed. A procedure of explicit parameterization of local orthonormal frames in a spatial curve is presented using the smallest rotation method within the IGA framework. In the configuration DSA, the material derivative is applied to a variational equation, and an orientation design variation of curved structure is identified as a change of embedded local orthonormal frames. In a shell model, we use a regularized variational equation with a drilling rotational DOF. The material derivative of the orthogonal transformation matrix can be evaluated at final equilibrium configuration, which enables to compute design sensitivity using the tangent stiffness at the equilibrium without further iterations. A design optimization method for a constrained structure in a curved domain is also developed, which focuses on a lattice structure design on a specified surface. We define a lattice structure and its design variables on a rectangular plane, and utilize a concept of free-form deformation and a global curve interpolation to obtain an analytical expression for the control net of the structure on curved surface. The material derivative of the analytical expression eventually leads to precise design velocity field. Using this method, the number of design variables is reduced and design parameterization becomes more straightforward. In demonstrative examples, we verify the developed analytical adjoint DSA method in beam and shell structural problems undergoing finite deformations with various kinematic and force boundary conditions. The method is also applied to practical optimal design problems of curved built-up structures. For example, we extremize auxeticity of lattice structures, and experimentally verify nearly constant negative Poisson's ratio during large tensile and compressive deformations by using the 3-D printing and optical deformation measurement technologies. Also, we architect phononic band gap structures having significantly large band gap for mitigating noise in low audible frequency ranges.본 연구에서는 대변형을 고려한 휘어진 조립 구조물의 연속체 기반 해석적 애조인 형상 설계 민감도 해석 기법을 개발하였다. 평면 Timoshenko 빔의 선형화된 변형률의 invariance 특성을 고찰하였고 invariant 정식화를 선택적 축소적분(selective reduced integration) 기법 및 B-bar projection 기법과 결합하여 shear 및 membrane 잠김 현상을 해소하였다. 비선형 구조 모델로서 기하학적으로 정밀한 빔 및 쉘 모델을 활용하였다. 평면 Kirchhoff 빔 모델을 NURBS 기저함수의 고차 연속성에 따른 아이소-지오메트릭 해석 기반 rotation-free 이산화를 활용하여 다루었으며, 기존의 Hermite 기저함수 기반의 유한요소법에 비해 자유도당 해의 정확도가 높음을 검증하였다. 라그랑지 승수법 및 벌칙 기법을 도입하여 회전의 연속성을 포함한 다양한 다중패치간 연속 조건을 고려하였다. 이러한 기법을 현상학적 (phenomenological) 형상기억폴리머 (SMP) 재료 구성방정식과 결합하여 형상의 프로그래밍과 회복 과정을 시뮬레이션하였다. 전단변형을 겪는 (shear-deformable) 구조 모델에 대하여 대회전의 갱신을 교대 행렬의 exponential map에 의한 곱의 형태로 수행하였다. 공간상의 곡선 모델에서 최소회전 (smallest rotation) 기법을 통해 국소 정규직교좌표계의 명시적 매개화를 수행하였다. 형상 설계 민감도 해석을 위하여 전미분을 변분 방정식에 적용하였으며 휘어진 구조물의 배향 설계 변화는 국소 정규직교좌표계의 회전에 의하여 기술된다. 최종 변형 형상에서 직교 변환 행렬의 전미분을 계산함으로써 대회전 문제에서 추가적인 반복 계산없이 변형 해석에서의 접선강성행렬에 의해 해석적 설계 민감도를 계산할 수 있다. 쉘 구조물의 경우 면내 회전 자유도 및 안정화된 변분 방정식을 활용하여 보강재(stiffener)의 모델링을 용이하게 하였다. 또한 본 연구에서는 휘어진 영역에 구속되어있는 구조물에 대한 설계 속도장 계산 및 최적 설계기법을 제안하며 특히 곡면에 구속된 빔 구조물의 설계를 집중적으로 다룬다. 자유형상변형(Free-form deformation)기법과 전역 곡선 보간기법을 활용하여 직사각 평면에서 형상 및 설계 변수를 정의하고 곡면상의 곡선 형상을 나타내는 조정점 위치를 해석적으로 표현할 수 있으며 이의 전미분을 통해 정확한 설계속도장을 계산한다. 이를 통해 설계 변수의 개수를 줄일 수 있고 설계의 매개화가 간편해진다. 개발된 방법론은 다양한 하중 및 운동학적 경계조건을 갖는 빔과 쉘의 대변형 문제를 통해 검증되며 여러가지 휘어진 조립 구조물의 최적 설계에 적용된다. 대표적으로, 전단 강성 및 충격 흡수 특성과 같은 기계적 물성치의 개선을 위해 활용되는 오그제틱 (auxetic) 특성이 극대화된 격자 구조를 설계하며 인장 및 압축 대변형 모두에서 일정한 음의 포아송비를 나타냄을 3차원 프린팅과 광학적 변형 측정 기술을 이용하여 실험적으로 검증한다. 또한 우리는 소음의 저감을 위해 활용되는 가청 저주파수 영역대에서의 밴드갭이 극대화된 격자 구조를 제시한다.Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Isogeometric analysis of geometrically exact nonlinear structures 3. Isogeometric confinguration DSA of geometrically exact nonlinear structures 4. Numerical examples 5. Conclusions and future works A. Supplements to the geometrically exact Kirchhoff beam model B. Supplements to the geometrically exact shear-deformable beam model C. Supplements to the geometrically exact shear-deformable shell model D. Supplements to the invariant formulations E. Supplements to the geometric constraints in design optimization F. Supplements to the design of auxetic structures 초록Docto

Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications

Tom Judson\u27s Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications is an open source textbook designed to teach the principles and theory of abstract algebra to college juniors and seniors in a rigorous manner. Its strengths include a wide range of exercises, both computational and theoretical, plus many nontrivial applications. Rob Beezer has contributed complementary material using the open source system, Sage.An HTML version on the PreText platform is available here. The first half of the book presents group theory, through the Sylow theorems, with enough material for a semester-long course. The second-half is suitable for a second semester and presents rings, integral domains, Boolean algebras, vector spaces, and fields, concluding with Galois Theory.https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ebooks/1022/thumbnail.jp