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The Entropy Influence Conjecture Revisited

Combinatorics 2011-10-21 v2 Computational Complexity Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

In this paper, we prove that most of the boolean functions, f:{1,1}n{1,1}f : \{-1,1\}^n \rightarrow \{-1,1\} satisfy the Fourier Entropy Influence (FEI) Conjecture due to Friedgut and Kalai (Proc. AMS'96). The conjecture says that the Entropy of a boolean function is at most a constant times the Influence of the function. The conjecture has been proven for families of functions of smaller sizes. O'donnell, Wright and Zhou (ICALP'11) verified the conjecture for the family of symmetric functions, whose size is 2n+12^{n+1}. They are in fact able to prove the conjecture for the family of dd-part symmetric functions for constant dd, the size of whose is 2O(nd)2^{O(n^d)}. Also it is known that the conjecture is true for a large fraction of polynomial sized DNFs (COLT'10). Using elementary methods we prove that a random function with high probability satisfies the conjecture with the constant as (2+δ)(2 + \delta), for any constant δ>0\delta > 0.

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@article{arxiv.1110.4301,
  title  = {The Entropy Influence Conjecture Revisited},
  author = {Bireswar Das and Manjish Pal and Vijay Visavaliya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.4301},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

We thank Kunal Dutta and Justin Salez for pointing out that our result can be extended to a high probability statement

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