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Sharp Inner Product Correlations for Hypercube Bijections

Combinatorics 2026-04-21 v2

Abstract

We resolve a conjecture of Rob Morris concerning bijections on the hypercube. Specifically, we show that for any bijection f:{1,1}n{1,1}nf : \{-1,1\}^n \to \{-1,1\}^n, Prx,y{1,1}n[x,y0  and  f(x),f(y)0]      14O(1/n), \Pr_{x,y \in \{-1,1\}^n}\big[ \langle x,y \rangle \ge 0 \;\text{and}\; \langle f(x),f(y) \rangle \ge 0 \big] \;\;\ge\; \tfrac{1}{4} - O(1/\sqrt{n}), implying the same lower bound for the joint event under any two bijections. Our proof proceeds by applying the spectral decomposition of the Hamming association scheme, which allows us to reformulate the problem as a linear program over the Birkhoff polytope. This makes it possible to isolate the contribution of the nontrivial spectrum, which we show is asymptotically negligible, leaving the dominant contribution arising from the principal eigenvalue.

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@article{arxiv.2509.00716,
  title  = {Sharp Inner Product Correlations for Hypercube Bijections},
  author = {Ijay Narang and Muchen Ju},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.00716},
  year   = {2026}
}

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12 pages

R2 v1 2026-07-01T05:13:53.106Z