Random weighting, asymptotic counting, and inverse isoperimetry

DOI10.1007/S11856-007-0008-8zbMATH Open1204.60014arXivmath/0302177OpenAlexW2127007261MaRDI QIDQ995359FDOQ995359

Alexander Barvinok, Alex Samorodnitsky

Publication date: 3 September 2007

Published in: Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a family X of k-subsets of the set 1,...,n, let |X| be the cardinality of X and let Gamma(X,mu) be the expected maximum weight of a subset from X when the weights of 1,...,n are chosen independently at random from a symmetric probability distribution mu on R. We consider the inverse isoperimetric problem of finding mu for which Gamma(X,mu) gives the best estimate of ln|X|. We prove that the optimal choice of mu is the logistic distribution, in which case Gamma(X,mu) provides an asymptotically tight estimate of ln|X| as k^{-1}ln|X| grows. Since in many important cases Gamma(X,mu) can be easily computed, we obtain computationally efficient approximation algorithms for a variety of counting problems. Given mu, we describe families X of a given cardinality with the minimum value of Gamma(X,mu), thus extending and sharpening various isoperimetric inequalities in the Boolean cube.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0302177

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zbMATH Keywords

weightssymmetric probability distributioncomputationally efficient approximation algorithmsinverse isoperimetric problemisoperimetric inequalities in the Boolean cube

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05) Extremal set theory (05D05)

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