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Induced subgraphs of hypercubes and a proof of the Sensitivity Conjecture

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arxiv 1907.00847 v2 pith:OVJ3M6Q5 submitted 2019-07-01 math.CO cs.CC

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In this paper, we show that every $(2^{n-1}+1)$-vertex induced subgraph of the $n$-dimensional cube graph has maximum degree at least $\sqrt{n}$. This result is best possible, and improves a logarithmic lower bound shown by Chung, F\"uredi, Graham and Seymour in 1988. As a direct consequence, we prove that the sensitivity and degree of a boolean function are polynomially related, solving an outstanding foundational problem in theoretical computer science, the Sensitivity Conjecture of Nisan and Szegedy.

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