Low-degree Boolean functions on $S_n$, with an application to isoperimetry
Abstract
We prove that Boolean functions on , whose Fourier transform is highly concentrated on irreducible representations indexed by partitions of whose largest part has size at least , are close to being unions of cosets of stabilizers of -tuples. We also obtain an edge-isoperimetric inequality for the transposition graph on which is asymptotically sharp for subsets of of size , using eigenvalue techniques. We then combine these two results to obtain a sharp edge-isoperimetric inequality for subsets of of size , where is large compared to , confirming a conjecture of Ben Efraim in these cases.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1511.08694,
title = {Low-degree Boolean functions on $S_n$, with an application to isoperimetry},
author = {David Ellis and Yuval Filmus and Ehud Friedgut},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.08694},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Minor corrections to statements of Lemmas 15 and 16. A prior theorem, cited in the Intro. of the previous version (Theorem 2) has recently been found to be false. This does not affect the rest of the paper. We have amended the statement of Theorem 2 and provided a counterexample to the original statement. This counterexample shows that our main theorem (Theorem 3) is sharper than we first thought