{"title":"A lower bound on the constant in the Fourier min-entropy/influence conjecture","authors":"Aniruddha Biswas, Palash Sarkar","doi":"10.1016/j.dam.2024.12.011","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We describe a new construction of Boolean functions. A specific instance of our construction provides a 30-variable Boolean function having min-entropy/influence ratio to be <span><math><mrow><mn>128</mn><mo>/</mo><mn>45</mn><mo>≈</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>.</mo><mn>8444</mn></mrow></math></span> which is presently the highest known value of this ratio that is achieved by any Boolean function. Correspondingly, <span><math><mrow><mn>128</mn><mo>/</mo><mn>45</mn></mrow></math></span> is also presently the best known lower bound on the universal constant of the Fourier min-entropy/influence conjecture.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50573,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Applied Mathematics","volume":"364 ","pages":"Pages 23-32"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Discrete Applied Mathematics","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166218X24005298","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS, APPLIED","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We describe a new construction of Boolean functions. A specific instance of our construction provides a 30-variable Boolean function having min-entropy/influence ratio to be which is presently the highest known value of this ratio that is achieved by any Boolean function. Correspondingly, is also presently the best known lower bound on the universal constant of the Fourier min-entropy/influence conjecture.
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