| An elementary construction of constant-degree expanders (2007) | |||||||||||||||
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| We describe a short and easy to analyze construction of constant-degree expanders. The construction relies on the replacement product, applied by [14] to give an iterative construction of bounded-degree expanders. Here we give a simpler construction, which applies the replacement product (only twice!) to turn the Cayley expanders of [4], whose degree is polylog n, into constant degree expanders. This enables us to prove the required expansion using a new simple combinatorial analysis of the replacement product (instead of the spectral analysis used in [14]). 1 | |||||||||||||||
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