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Lipschitz bijections between boolean functions

Part of: Discrete mathematics in relation to computer science Extremal combinatorics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2020

Tom Johnston  and
Alex Scott
Tom Johnston*
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK
Alex Scott
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK
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*Corresponding author. Email: thomas.johnston@maths.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

We answer four questions from a recent paper of Rao and Shinkar [17] on Lipschitz bijections between functions from {0, 1}n to {0, 1}. (1) We show that there is no O(1)-bi-Lipschitz bijection from Dictator to XOR such that each output bit depends on O(1) input bits. (2) We give a construction for a mapping from XOR to Majority which has average stretch $O(\sqrt{n})$, matching a previously known lower bound. (3) We give a 3-Lipschitz embedding $\phi \colon\{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}^{2n+1}$ such that $${\rm{XOR }}(x) = {\rm{ Majority }}(\phi (x))$$ for all $x \in \{0,1\}^n$. (4) We show that with high probability there is an O(1)-bi-Lipschitz mapping from Dictator to a uniformly random balanced function.

MSC classification

Primary: 68R05: Combinatorics
Secondary: 05D40: Probabilistic methods

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , July 2021 , pp. 513 - 525
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