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A Counterexample to a Directed KKL Inequality

Combinatorics 2022-10-06 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We show that the natural directed analogues of the KKL theorem [KKL88] and the Eldan--Gross inequality [EG20] from the analysis of Boolean functions fail to hold. This is in contrast to several other isoperimetric inequalities on the Boolean hypercube (such as the Poincare inequality, Margulis's inequality [Mar74] and Talagrand's inequality [Tal93]) for which directed strengthenings have recently been established.

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@article{arxiv.2210.02035,
  title  = {A Counterexample to a Directed KKL Inequality},
  author = {Quentin Dubroff and Shivam Nadimpalli and Bhargav Narayanan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.02035},
  year   = {2022}
}

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5 pages. Comments welcome

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