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Asymptotically optimal Boolean functions
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- The largest Hamming distance between a Boolean function in $n$ variables and the set of all affine Boolean functions in $n$ variables is known as the covering radius $\rho_n$ of the $[2^n,n+1]$ Reed-Muller code. This number determines how well Boolean functions can be approximated by linear Boolean functions. We prove that \[ \lim_{n\to\infty}2^{n/2}-\rho_n/2^{n/2-1}=1, \] which resolves a conjecture due to Patterson and Wiedemann from 1983.
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1711.08215
- Document Type :
- Working Paper