Friedgut–Kalai Fourier entropy-influence conjecture

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Let f:{−1,1}n→{−1,1}f:\{-1,1\}^n\to\{-1,1\} be a Boolean function with normalized Fourier coefficients, Fourier entropy H[f]H[f], and total influence I[f]I[f].

Friedgut–Kalai Fourier entropy-influence conjecture. There exists a universal constant cc such that, for every such ff,

H[f]≤cI[f].H[f]\leq c I[f].

This is described as a major open problem in the analysis of Boolean functions. The conjecture concerns a dimension-independent comparison between Fourier entropy and total influence.

References

Primary source

Kaifeng Bu, Roy J. Garcia, Arthur Jaffe, Dax Enshan Koh and Lu Li, “Complexity of quantum circuits via sensitivity, magic, and coherence”, arXiv:2204.12051 (2022).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1711.00762.

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