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We present the best constant and the existence of extremal functions for an Improved Hardy-Sobolev inequality. We prove that, under a proper transformation, this inequality is equivalent to the Sobolev inequality in $\mathbb{R}^N$. We also…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-07-03 N. B. Zographopoulos

A function defined on the Boolean hypercube is $k$-Fourier-sparse if it has at most $k$ nonzero Fourier coefficients. For a function $f: \mathbb{F}_2^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ and parameters $k$ and $d$, we prove a strong upper bound on the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-08 Ishay Haviv , Oded Regev

We study the extremal competitive ratio of Boolean function evaluation. We provide the first non-trivial lower and upper bounds for classes of Boolean functions which are not included in the class of monotone Boolean functions. For the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Ferdinando Cicalese , Travis Gagie , Eduardo Laber , Martin Milanic

The basic goal of threshold group testing is to identify up to $d$ defective items among a population of $n$ items, where $d$ is usually much smaller than $n$. The outcome of a test on a subset of items is positive if the subset has at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Thach V. Bui , Mahdi Cheraghchi , Isao Echizen

A Boolean network (BN) with $n$ components is a discrete dynamical system described by the successive iterations of a function $f:\{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}^n$. This model finds applications in biology, where fixed points play a central role.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Florian Bridoux , Amélia Durbec , Kévin Perrot , Adrien Richard

This manuscript includes some classical results we select apart from the new results we've found on the Analysis of Boolean Functions and Fourier-Entropy-Influence conjecture. We try to ensure the self-completeness of this work so that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Xiao Han

To each Boolean function F from {0,1}^n to itself and each point x in {0,1}^n, we associate the signed directed graph G_F(x) of order n that contains a positive (resp. negative) arc from j to i if the partial derivative of f_i with respect…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-10-06 Adrien Richard

Let $x(n):=\alpha n^d \mod 1$ for integer $d >1$ and non-zero real $\alpha$. We show that $\{x(n)\}_{n>0}$ has Poissonian $\ell$-point correlations for almost all choices of $\alpha$ when $d$ is large (depending on $\ell$). This falls in…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Chris Lutsko , Nick Rome , Niclas Technau

The systematic study of Tur\'an-type extremal problems for edge-ordered graphs was initiated by Gerbner et al. arXiv:2001.00849. They conjectured that the extremal functions of edge-ordered forests of order chromatic number 2 are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Gaurav Kucheriya , Gábor Tardos

We present a unified framework to study threshold functions for the existence of solutions to linear systems of equations in random sets which includes arithmetic progressions, sum-free sets, $B_{h}[g]$-sets and Hilbert cubes. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Juanjo Rué , Christoph Spiegel , Ana Zumalacárregui

We determine the exact freezing threshold, r^f, for a family of models of random boolean constraint satisfaction problems, including NAE-SAT and hypergraph 2-colouring, when the constraint size is sufficiently large. If the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-09-24 Michael Molloy , Ricardo Restrepo

The theorem states that: Every Boolean function can be $\epsilon -approximated$ by a Disjunctive Normal Form (DNF) of size $O_{\epsilon}(2^{n}/\log{n})$. This paper will demonstrate this theorem in detail by showing how this theorem is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Yunhao Yang , Andrew Tan

We prove lower bounds on the complexity of finding $\epsilon$-stationary points (points $x$ such that $\|\nabla f(x)\| \le \epsilon$) of smooth, high-dimensional, and potentially non-convex functions $f$. We consider oracle-based complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Yair Carmon , John C. Duchi , Oliver Hinder , Aaron Sidford

We introduce \emph{Term Coding}, a novel framework for analysing extremal problems in discrete mathematics by encoding them as finite systems of \emph{term equations} (and, optionally, \emph{non-equality constraints}). In its basic form,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Søren Riis

By a theorem of Strassmann, a non-zero convergent power series in one variable over a complete non-Archimedean field has finitely many zeros, with an explicit bound on their number. We generalize this result to convergent power series in…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Guido Maria Lido , Luca Mauri

The following problem originated from a question due to Paul Turan. Suppose $\Omega$ is a convex body in Euclidean space $\RR^d$ or in $\TT^d$, which is symmetric about the origin. Over all positive definite functions supported in $\Omega$,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Mihail N. Kolountzakis , Szilard Gy. Revesz

The paper studies coincidence points of parameterized set-valued mappings (multifunctions), which provide an extended framework to cover several important topics in variational analysis and optimization that include the existence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Aram V. Arutyunov , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Sergey E. Zhukovskiy

We illustrate the potential applications in machine learning of the Christoffel function, or more precisely, its empirical counterpart associated with a counting measure uniformly supported on a finite set of points. Firstly, we provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Edouard Pauwels

Let $f\colon \{0,1\}^n\to \{0,1\}$ be a monotone Boolean functions, let $\psi_k(f)$ denote the Shapley value of the $k$th variable and $b_k(f)$ denote the Banzhaf value (influence) of the $k$th variable. We prove that if we have $\psi_k(f)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Gil Kalai , Noam Lifshitz

Let $\alpha(n)$ be the least number $k$ for which there exists a simple graph with $k$ vertices having precisely $n \geq 3$ spanning trees. Similarly, define $\beta(n)$ as the least number $k$ for which there exists a simple graph with $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-02-12 Jernej Azarija , Riste Škrekovski