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Majority Is Asymptotically the Most Stable Resilient Function

Speaker(s)
Elchanan Mossel
Affiliation
MIT
Date
April 20, 2017, 12:15 p.m.
Room
room 3260
Seminar
Seminar of Probability Group

The result that "Majority is Stablest", proven with O'Donnell and Oleszkiewicz (2005), states that, asymptotically, among all Boolean functions with sufficiently low influences and mean, a simple majority function is most stable as the number of variables goes to infinity. It is natural to ask if the condition of low influences can be relaxed to the condition that the function has vanishing Fourier coefficients. Here we answer this question affirmatively.