Relationships between the number of inputs and other complexity measures of Boolean functions

05/01/2020

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by   Jake Wellens, et al.

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We generalize and extend the ideas in a recent paper of Chiarelli, Hatami and Saks to prove new bounds on the number of relevant variables for boolean functions in terms of a variety of complexity measures. Our approach unifies and refines all previously known bounds of this type. We also improve Nisan and Szegedy's well-known block sensitivity vs. degree inequality by a constant factor, thereby improving Huang's recent proof of the sensitivity conjecture by the same constant.