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Anti-concentration in most directions

Probability 2019-03-06 v4

Abstract

We prove anti-concentration bounds for the inner product of two independent random vectors. For example, we show that if A,BA,B are subsets of the cube {±1}n\{\pm 1\}^n with AB21.01n|A| \cdot |B| \geq 2^{1.01 n}, and XAX \in A and YBY \in B are sampled independently and uniformly, then the inner product X,Y\langle X, Y \rangle takes on any fixed value with probability at most O(1n)O(\tfrac{1}{\sqrt{n}}). Extending Hal\'asz work, we prove stronger bounds when the choices for xx are unstructured. We also describe applications to communication complexity, randomness extraction and additive combinatorics.

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@article{arxiv.1811.06510,
  title  = {Anti-concentration in most directions},
  author = {Anup Rao and Amir Yehudayoff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.06510},
  year   = {2019}
}

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23 pages

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