Sharper bounds on the Fourier concentration of DNFs
Computational Complexity
2021-10-19 v2
Abstract
In 1992 Mansour proved that every size- DNF formula is Fourier-concentrated on coefficients. We improve this to where is the read number of the DNF. Since is always at most , our bound matches Mansour's for all DNFs and strengthens it for small-read ones. The previous best bound for read- DNFs was . For up to , we further improve our bound to the optimal ; previously no such bound was known for any . Our techniques involve new connections between the term structure of a DNF, viewed as a set system, and its Fourier spectrum.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2109.04525,
title = {Sharper bounds on the Fourier concentration of DNFs},
author = {Victor Lecomte and Li-Yang Tan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.04525},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
19 pages; to appear at FOCS 2021