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The model of relative-error property testing of Boolean functions has been the subject of significant recent research effort [CDH+24][CPPS25a][CPPS25b] In this paper we consider the problem of relative-error testing an unknown and arbitrary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xi Chen , Diptaksho Palit , Kabir Peshawaria , William Pires , Rocco A. Servedio , Yiding Zhang

Scaling-invariant functions preserve the order of points when the points are scaled by the same positive scalar (with respect to a unique reference point). Composites of strictly monotonic functions with positively homogeneous functions are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Cheikh Touré , Armand Gissler , Anne Auger , Nikolaus Hansen

We study enumeration problems for multi-operator monomials generated from one indeterminate by an associative multiplication together with finitely many unary operators. We consider four regimes, according to whether multiplication is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Yu Hin Au , Murray R. Bremner

We investigate monotone operator functions of several variables under a trace or a trace-like functional. In particular, we prove the inequality \tau(x_1... x_n)\le\tau(y_1... y_n) for a trace \tau on a C^*-algebra and abelian n-tuples…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frank Hansen

Two inequalities involving the Euler totient function and the sum of the $k$-th powers of the divisors of balancing numbers are explored.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-15 Manasi Kumari Sahukar , G. K. Panda

Affine equivalent classes of Boolean functions have many applications in modern cryptography and circuit design. Previous publications have shown that affine equivalence on the entire space of Boolean functions can be computed up to 10…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Xiao Zeng , Guowu Yang

This paper introduces a novel quantum algorithm that is able to classify a hierarchy of classes of imbalanced Boolean functions. The fundamental characteristic of imbalanced Boolean functions is that the proportion of elements in their…

This paper establishes several upper and lower estimates for the maximal number of the connected components of the solution sets of monotone affine vector variational inequalities. Our results give a partial solution to Question~2 in [N.D.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Vu Trung Hieu

The concepts of amenable and compatible functions have been introduced in a recent work, in order to state precise mathematical theorems that guarantee that a backward stable algorithm is also forward stable, and that the composition of two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Carlos Beltrán

Bent functions are Boolean functions in an even number of variables that are indicators of Hadamard difference sets in elementary abelian 2-groups. A bent function in m variables is said to be normal if it is constant on an affine space of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Valérie Gillot , Philippe Langevin , Alexandr Polujan

One matrix structure in the area of monotone Boolean functions is defined here. Some of its combinatorial, algebraic and algorithmic properties are derived. On the base of these properties, three algorithms are built. First of them…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Valentin Bakoev

Counting functions are constructed for sums of integers raised to a fixed positive rational power. That is, given values formed by $u_1^{j/k} + u_2^{j/k} + ... + u_l^{j/k}$, $u_i \in \mathbb{Z}^+$, the number of values less than or equal to…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Trevor Wine

We prove that any function with real-valued coefficients, whose input is 4 binary variables and whose output is a real number, is perfectly equivalent to a quadratic function whose input is 5 binary variables and is minimized over the new…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Nike Dattani , Hou Tin Chau

In the paper, the authors concisely survey and review some functions involving the gamma function and its various ratios, simply state their logarithmically complete monotonicity and related results, and find necessary and sufficient…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Feng Qi , Wen-Hui Li

We consider approximation problems for a special space of d variate functions. We show that the problems have small number of active variables, as it has been postulated in the past using concentration of measure arguments. We also show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-01-25 Markus Hegland , Greg W. Wasilkowski

This paper investigates the learnability of the nonlinearity property of Boolean functions using neural networks. We train encoder style deep neural networks to learn to predict the nonlinearity of Boolean functions from examples of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Sriram Ranga , Nandish Chattopadhyay , Anupam Chattopadhyay

We present necessary and sufficient conditions for a Boolean function to be a negabent function for both even and odd number of variables, which demonstrate the relationship between negabent functions and bent functions. By using these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-31 Wei Su , Alexander Pott , Xiaohu Tang

Real-world machine learning applications may require functions that are fast-to-evaluate and interpretable. In particular, guaranteed monotonicity of the learned function can be critical to user trust. We propose meeting these goals for…

We propose a representation of boolean bent functions by bent rectangles, that is, by special matrices with restrictions on rows and columns. Using this representation, we exhibit new classes of bent functions, give an algorithm to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergey Agievich

A Boolean function $f$ on $n$ variables is said to be a bent function if the absolute value of all its Walsh coefficients is $2^{n/2}$. Our main result is a new asymptotic lower bound on the number of Boolean bent functions. It is based on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-29 V. N. Potapov , A. A. Taranenko , Yu. V. Tarannikov