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Covering the hypercube, the uncertainty principle, and an interpolation formula

Combinatorics 2025-10-06 v2 Probability

Abstract

We show that the minimal number of skewed hyperplanes that cover the hypercube {0,1}n\{0,1\}^{n} is at least n2+1\frac{n}{2}+1, and there are infinitely many nn's when the hypercube can be covered with nlog2(n)+1n-\log_{2}(n)+1 skewed hyperplanes. The minimal covering problems are closely related to uncertainty principle on the hypercube, where we also obtain an interpolation formula for multilinear polynomials on Rn\mathbb{R}^{n} of degree less than n/m\lfloor n/m \rfloor by showing that its coefficients corresponding to the largest monomials can be represented as a linear combination of values of the polynomial over the points {0,1}n\{0,1\}^{n} whose hamming weights are divisible by mm.

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@article{arxiv.2310.13277,
  title  = {Covering the hypercube, the uncertainty principle, and an interpolation formula},
  author = {Paata Ivanisvili and Ohad Klein and Roman Vershynin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.13277},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Incorporates referee comments

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