Monotonicity conjecture for Gaussian noise stability at fixed volume

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For a∈(0,1)a\in(0,1), let J(a,a;ρ)J(a,a;\rho) denote the Gaussian noise-stability quantity for two sets of Gaussian measure aa, and let EρJ(1A(X),1A(Y);ρ)\mathbb{E}_\rho J(1_A(X),1_A(Y);\rho) denote the corresponding quantity for a set A⊂RnA\subset\mathbb{R}^n, where XX and YY are standard Gaussian vectors with correlation ρ\rho. The conjecture asserts that there is a function k(ρ,a)k(\rho,a) such that, for every fixed a∈(0,1)a\in(0,1),

k(ρ,a)∼1−ρas ρ→1,k(\rho,a)\sim\sqrt{1-\rho}\quad\text{as }\rho\to1,

and

k(ρ,a)∼ρas ρ→0,k(\rho,a)\sim\rho\quad\text{as }\rho\to0,

while, for every a∈(0,1)a\in(0,1) and every A⊂RnA\subset\mathbb{R}^n,

J(a,a;ρ)−EρJ(1A(X),1A(Y);ρ)k(ρ,a)\frac{J(a,a;\rho)-\mathbb{E}_\rho J(1_A(X),1_A(Y);\rho)}{k(\rho,a)}

is increasing in ρ\rho. This would remove the half-measure and integrality restrictions in the proposition used to compare Gaussian noise parameters, potentially improving the quantitative robustness results and extending them to arbitrary fixed volumes.

References

Primary source

Elchanan Mossel and Joe Neeman, “Robust Optimality of Gaussian Noise Stability”, arXiv:1210.4126 (2013).

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