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Noise Stability of Weighted Majority

Probability 2007-05-23 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Benjamini, Kalai and Schramm (2001) showed that weighted majority functions of nn independent unbiased bits are uniformly stable under noise: when each bit is flipped with probability ϵ\epsilon, the probability pϵp_\epsilon that the weighted majority changes is at most Cϵ1/4C\epsilon^{1/4}. They asked what is the best possible exponent that could replace 1/4. We prove that the answer is 1/2. The upper bound obtained for pϵp_\epsilon is within a factor of π/2+o(1)\sqrt{\pi/2}+o(1) from the known lower bound when ϵ0\epsilon \to 0 and nϵn\epsilon\to \infty.

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@article{arxiv.math/0412377,
  title  = {Noise Stability of Weighted Majority},
  author = {Yuval Peres},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0412377},
  year   = {2007}
}

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six pages

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