Finite seed and entropy bounds at fixed recursion depths #
Every scheduled extractor of depth at most sixty-four has at most
2^24 * L seed bits when its local error exponent and input logarithm fit
the common width L. At depths twenty-four and sixty-four, its source
entropy threshold is bounded by 2^62 * L and 2^142 * L, respectively.
Together with the actual output length 2^h * L, these conservative
estimates support matching the seed widths of successive extractor calls.
These constants are our arithmetic deductions from the checked scheduled
construction. The recursive method is credited in Recursion.Extraction.
They are intended for the alternating-extraction and flip-flop route of
Chattopadhyay--Goyal--Li, Non-Malleable Extractors and Codes, with their
Many Tampered Extensions, Section 6, Algorithms 1--2,
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.00107. This module proves only finite numerical
bounds, not a correlation-breaker construction or its statistical guarantee.
The actual depth-twenty-four source entropy is linear in the common width.
The actual depth-sixty-four source entropy is linear in the common width.