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Evasiveness and the Distribution of Prime Numbers

Authors: László Babai, Anandam Banerjee, Raghav Kulkarni, and Vipul Naik

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 5, 27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (2010)


Abstract
A Boolean function on $N$ variables is called \emph{evasive} if its decision-tree complexity is $N$. A sequence $B_n$ of Boolean functions is \emph{eventually evasive} if $B_n$ is evasive for all sufficiently large $n$. We confirm the eventual evasiveness of several classes of monotone graph properties under widely accepted number theoretic hypotheses. In particular we show that Chowla's conjecture on Dirichlet primes implies that (a) for any graph $H$, ``forbidden subgraph $H$'' is eventually evasive and (b) all nontrivial monotone properties of graphs with $\le n^{3/2-\epsilon}$ edges are eventually evasive. ($n$ is the number of vertices.) While Chowla's conjecture is not known to follow from the Extended Riemann Hypothesis (ERH, the Riemann Hypothesis for Dirichlet's $L$ functions), we show (b) with the bound $O(n^{5/4-\epsilon})$ under ERH. We also prove unconditional results: (a$'$) for any graph $H$, the query complexity of ``forbidden subgraph $H$'' is $\binom{n}{2} - O(1)$; (b$'$) for some constant $c>0$, all nontrivial monotone properties of graphs with $\le cn\log n+O(1)$ edges are eventually evasive. Even these weaker, unconditional results rely on deep results from number theory such as Vinogradov's theorem on the Goldbach conjecture. Our technical contribution consists in connecting the topological framework of Kahn, Saks, and Sturtevant (1984), as further developed by Chakrabarti, Khot, and Shi (2002), with a deeper analysis of the orbital structure of permutation groups and their connection to the distribution of prime numbers. Our unconditional results include stronger versions and generalizations of some result of Chakrabarti et al.

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László Babai, Anandam Banerjee, Raghav Kulkarni, and Vipul Naik. Evasiveness and the Distribution of Prime Numbers. In 27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 5, pp. 71-82, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{babai_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2010.2445,
  author =	{Babai, L\'{a}szl\'{o} and Banerjee, Anandam and Kulkarni, Raghav and Naik, Vipul},
  title =	{{Evasiveness and the Distribution of Prime Numbers}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science},
  pages =	{71--82},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-16-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{5},
  editor =	{Marion, Jean-Yves and Schwentick, Thomas},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2010.2445},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-24451},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2010.2445},
  annote =	{Keywords: Decision tree complexity, evasiveness, graph property, group action, Dirichlet primes, Extended Riemann Hypothesis}
}
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