An Improved Construction of Variety-Evasive Subspace Families

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Main Authors: Andrews, Robert, Garg, Abhibhav
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Published: 2026
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author Andrews, Robert
Garg, Abhibhav
author_facet Andrews, Robert
Garg, Abhibhav
contents We study the question of explicitly constructing variety-evasive subspace families, a pseudorandom primitive introduced by Guo (Computational Complexity 2024) that generalizes both hitting sets and lossless rank condensers. Roughly speaking, a variety-evasive subspace family $\mathcal{H}$ is a collection of subspaces such that for every algebraic variety $V$ in a fixed family $\mathcal{F}$, there is some subspace $W \in \mathcal{H}$ that is in general position with respect to $V$. We give an explicit construction of a subspace families that evade all degree-$d$ varieties in an $n$-dimensional affine or projective space. Our construction improves on the size of the variety-evasive subspace families constructed by Guo and, for varieties of degree $n^{1 + Ω(1)}$, comes within a polynomial factor of Guo's lower bound on the size of any such variety-evasive subspace family. Our variety-evasive subspace families rely on an improved construction of hitting sets for Chow forms of algebraic varieties.
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spellingShingle An Improved Construction of Variety-Evasive Subspace Families
Andrews, Robert
Garg, Abhibhav
Computational Complexity
We study the question of explicitly constructing variety-evasive subspace families, a pseudorandom primitive introduced by Guo (Computational Complexity 2024) that generalizes both hitting sets and lossless rank condensers. Roughly speaking, a variety-evasive subspace family $\mathcal{H}$ is a collection of subspaces such that for every algebraic variety $V$ in a fixed family $\mathcal{F}$, there is some subspace $W \in \mathcal{H}$ that is in general position with respect to $V$. We give an explicit construction of a subspace families that evade all degree-$d$ varieties in an $n$-dimensional affine or projective space. Our construction improves on the size of the variety-evasive subspace families constructed by Guo and, for varieties of degree $n^{1 + Ω(1)}$, comes within a polynomial factor of Guo's lower bound on the size of any such variety-evasive subspace family. Our variety-evasive subspace families rely on an improved construction of hitting sets for Chow forms of algebraic varieties.
title An Improved Construction of Variety-Evasive Subspace Families
topic Computational Complexity
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05621