Finitary Boolean functions
Abstract
We study functions on the infinite-dimensional Hamming cube , in particular Boolean functions into , generalising results on analysis of Boolean functions on for . The notion of noise sensitivity, first studied in arXiv:math/9811157 , is extended to this setting, and basic Fourier formulas are established. We also prove hypercontractivity estimates for these functions, and give a version of the Kahn-Kalai-Linial theorem giving a bound relating the total influence to the maximal influence. Particular attention is paid to so-called finitary functions, which are functions for which there exists an algorithm that almost surely queries only finitely many bits. Two versions of the Benjamini-Kalai-Schramm theorem characterizing noise sensitivity in terms of the sum of squared influences are given, under additional moment hypotheses on the amount of bits looked at by an algorithm. A version of the Kahn-Kalai-Linial theorem giving that the maximal influence is of order is also given, replacing with the expected number of bits looked at by an algorithm. Finally, we show that the result in arXiv:math/0504586 that revealments going to zero implies noise sensitivity also holds for finitary functions, and apply this to show noise sensitivity of a version of the voter model on sufficiently sparse graphs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1906.03709,
title = {Finitary Boolean functions},
author = {Vilhelm Agdur},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.03709},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
33 pages, 2 figures. Originally as Master's Thesis at Gothenburg University