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The grand product argument protocol based on a GKR-instantiation.

Grand Product Argument reduces a grand product claim to a multilinear evalcheck claim. A Grand Product Claim is that a multilinear polynomials evaluations over the hypercube multiply to some claimed final product.

The GKR circuit used here has only one gate type: the fan-in-2 multiplication gate. In the natural way, the 2^n input wires are multiplied together in n layers to produce the output.

Naming Convention for challenges:

  1. Sumcheck challenge: $r’_k$ $k$-variate sumcheck challenge vector generated during the course of gkr_sumcheck
  2. GKR Challenge $\mu_k$ 1-variate generated during layer proving after the sumcheck proof is created after the layer k to k+1 sumcheck
  3. Layer Challenge $r_{k+1} := (r_k, \mu_k)$ $k+1$ variate, materialized as a combination of the above two, used in LayerClaim

See Thaler13 Section 5.3.1 for further background on the GKR polynomial identities for a binary tree circuit.

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  • Proves batch reduction turning each GrandProductClaim into an EvalcheckMultilinearClaim
  • Verifies batch reduction turning each GrandProductClaim into an EvalcheckMultilinearClaim