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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2024.40

On Fourier Analysis of Sparse Boolean Functions over Certain Abelian Groups

Authors: Sourav Chakraborty, Swarnalipa Datta, Pranjal Dutta, Arijit Ghosh, and Swagato Sanyal

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 306, 49th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2024)

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Given an Abelian group 𝒢, a Boolean-valued function f: 𝒢 → {-1,+1}, is said to be s-sparse, if it has at most s-many non-zero Fourier coefficients over the domain 𝒢. In a seminal paper, Gopalan et al. [Gopalan et al., 2011] proved "Granularity" for Fourier coefficients of Boolean valued functions over ℤ₂ⁿ, that have found many diverse applications in theoretical computer science and combinatorics. They also studied structural results for Boolean functions over ℤ₂ⁿ which are approximately Fourier-sparse. In this work, we obtain structural results for approximately Fourier-sparse Boolean valued functions over Abelian groups 𝒢 of the form, 𝒢: = ℤ_{p_1}^{n_1} × ⋯ × ℤ_{p_t}^{n_t}, for distinct primes p_i. We also obtain a lower bound of the form 1/(m²s)^⌈φ(m)/2⌉, on the absolute value of the smallest non-zero Fourier coefficient of an s-sparse function, where m = p_1 ⋯ p_t, and φ(m) = (p_1-1) ⋯ (p_t-1). We carefully apply probabilistic techniques from [Gopalan et al., 2011], to obtain our structural results, and use some non-trivial results from algebraic number theory to get the lower bound. We construct a family of at most s-sparse Boolean functions over ℤ_pⁿ, where p > 2, for arbitrarily large enough s, where the minimum non-zero Fourier coefficient is o(1/s). The "Granularity" result of Gopalan et al. implies that the absolute values of non-zero Fourier coefficients of any s-sparse Boolean valued function over ℤ₂ⁿ are Ω(1/s). So, our result shows that one cannot expect such a lower bound for general Abelian groups. Using our new structural results on the Fourier coefficients of sparse functions, we design an efficient sparsity testing algorithm for Boolean function, which tests whether the given function is s-sparse, or ε-far from any sparse Boolean function, and it requires poly((ms)^φ(m),1/ε)-many queries. Further, we generalize the notion of degree of a Boolean function over an Abelian group 𝒢. We use it to prove an Ω(√s) lower bound on the query complexity of any adaptive sparsity testing algorithm.

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Sourav Chakraborty, Swarnalipa Datta, Pranjal Dutta, Arijit Ghosh, and Swagato Sanyal. On Fourier Analysis of Sparse Boolean Functions over Certain Abelian Groups. In 49th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 306, pp. 40:1-40:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{chakraborty_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2024.40,
  author =	{Chakraborty, Sourav and Datta, Swarnalipa and Dutta, Pranjal and Ghosh, Arijit and Sanyal, Swagato},
  title =	{{On Fourier Analysis of Sparse Boolean Functions over Certain Abelian Groups}},
  booktitle =	{49th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2024)},
  pages =	{40:1--40:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-335-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{306},
  editor =	{Kr\'{a}lovi\v{c}, Rastislav and Ku\v{c}era, Anton{\'\i}n},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2024.40},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-205963},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2024.40},
  annote =	{Keywords: Fourier coefficients, sparse, Abelian, granularity}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2024.29

Statistics of Parking Functions and Labeled Forests

Authors: Stephan Wagner and Mei Yin

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 302, 35th International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2024)

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In this paper we obtain some new results on the enumeration of parking functions and labeled forests. We introduce new statistics both for parking functions and for labeled forests that are connected to each other by means of a bijection. We determine the joint distribution of two statistics on parking functions and their counterparts on labeled forests. Our results on labeled forests also serve to explain the mysterious equidistribution between two seemingly unrelated statistics in parking functions recently identified by Stanley and Yin and give an explicit bijection between the two statistics.

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Stephan Wagner and Mei Yin. Statistics of Parking Functions and Labeled Forests. In 35th International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 302, pp. 29:1-29:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{wagner_et_al:LIPIcs.AofA.2024.29,
  author =	{Wagner, Stephan and Yin, Mei},
  title =	{{Statistics of Parking Functions and Labeled Forests}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2024)},
  pages =	{29:1--29:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-329-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{302},
  editor =	{Mailler, C\'{e}cile and Wild, Sebastian},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2024.29},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-204648},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2024.29},
  annote =	{Keywords: parking function, labeled forest, generating function, Pollak’s circle argument, bijection}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2022.18

Parking Functions, Multi-Shuffle, and Asymptotic Phenomena

Authors: Mei Yin

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 225, 33rd International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2022)

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Given a positive integer-valued vector u = (u_1, … , u_m) with u_1 < ⋯ < u_m, a u-parking function of length m is a sequence π = (π_1, … , π_m) of positive integers whose non-decreasing rearrangement (λ_1, … , λ_m) satisfies λ_i ≤ u_i for all 1 ≤ i ≤ m. We introduce a combinatorial construction termed a parking function multi-shuffle to generic u-parking functions and obtain an explicit characterization of multiple parking coordinates. As an application, we derive various asymptotic probabilistic properties of a uniform u-parking function of length m when u_i = cm+ib. The asymptotic scenario in the generic situation c > 0 is in sharp contrast with that of the special situation c = 0.

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Mei Yin. Parking Functions, Multi-Shuffle, and Asymptotic Phenomena. In 33rd International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 225, pp. 18:1-18:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{yin:LIPIcs.AofA.2022.18,
  author =	{Yin, Mei},
  title =	{{Parking Functions, Multi-Shuffle, and Asymptotic Phenomena}},
  booktitle =	{33rd International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2022)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-230-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{225},
  editor =	{Ward, Mark Daniel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2022.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161041},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2022.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: Parking function, Multi-shuffle, Asymptotic expansion, Abel’s multinomial theorem}
}

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