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Vertex-isoperimetric stability in the hypercube

Combinatorics 2019-10-17 v2

Abstract

Harper's Theorem states that, in a hypercube, among all sets of a given fixed size the Hamming balls have minimal closed neighbourhoods. In this paper we prove a stability-like result for Harper's Theorem: if the closed neighbourhood of a set is close to minimal in the hypercube, then the set must be very close to a Hamming ball around some vertex.

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@article{arxiv.1808.02572,
  title  = {Vertex-isoperimetric stability in the hypercube},
  author = {Michał Przykucki and Alexander Roberts},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.02572},
  year   = {2019}
}

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18 pages

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