Resilience for the Littlewood-Offord Problem
Combinatorics
2017-08-04 v4 Probability
Abstract
Consider the sum , where is a sequence of non-zero reals and is a sequence of i.i.d. Rademacher random variables (that is, ). The classical Littlewood-Offord problem asks for the best possible upper bound on the concentration probabilities . In this paper we study a resilience version of the Littlewood-Offord problem: how many of the is an adversary typically allowed to change without being able to force concentration on a particular value? We solve this problem asymptotically, and present a few interesting open problems.
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@article{arxiv.1609.08136,
title = {Resilience for the Littlewood-Offord Problem},
author = {Afonso S. Bandeira and Asaf Ferber and Matthew Kwan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.08136},
year = {2017}
}
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This version addresses referee's comments