English

Finitary Boolean functions

Probability 2019-06-11 v1

Abstract

We study functions on the infinite-dimensional Hamming cube {1,1}\{-1,1\}^\infty, in particular Boolean functions into {1,1}\{-1,1\}, generalising results on analysis of Boolean functions on {1,1}n\{-1,1\}^n for nNn\in\mathbb{N}. 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 log(n)n\frac{\log(n)}{n} is also given, replacing nn 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.

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@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