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arxiv: 0902.1538 · v1 · pith:XYAYUDK2new · submitted 2009-02-09 · 🧮 math.PR · math.CO

Bilinear and Quadratic Variants on the Littlewood-Offord Problem

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If f(x_1, x_2, ..., x_n) is a polynomial dependent on a large number of independent Bernoulli random variables, what can be said about the maximum concentration of f on any single value? For linear polynomials, this reduces to one version of the classical Littlewood-Offord problem: Given nonzero constants a_1 through a_n, what is the maximum number of sums of the form +/- a_1 +/- a_2 +/-... +/- a_n which take on any single value? Here we consider the case where f is either a bilinear form or a quadratic form. For the bilinear case, we show that the only forms having concentration significantly larger than n^{-1} are those which are in a certain sense very close to being degenerate. For the quadratic case, we show that no form having many nonzero coefficients has concentration significantly larger than n^{-1/2}. In both cases the results are nearly tight.

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