Primitive interpolation coefficients for condenser expansion #
A nonzero interpolating family can be divided by common factors of a supplied monic modulus until at least one coefficient is nonzero modulo that modulus. Its degree bounds and vanishing constraints are preserved when the modulus has no zero at the constrained seeds.
This proves the normalization step in Guruswami, Umans, and Vadhan, Unbalanced Expanders and Randomness Extractors from Parvaresh--Vardy Codes (2009), Theorem 3.3: https://salil.seas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum4266/files/salil/files/acm2009.pdf. The no-zero hypothesis holds for irreducible moduli of degree at least two; degree-one moduli need a separate expansion argument. This is an algebraic witness proof, not a condenser evaluator.
Remove common modulus factors without increasing coefficient degrees or
changing the zero constraints. The resulting family has a coefficient not
divisible by E, hence a nonzero coefficient in the quotient by E.