An isoperimetric inequality for Hamming balls and local expansion in hypercubes

Zilin Jiang; Amir Yehudayoff

doi:10.37236/9860

An isoperimetric inequality for Hamming balls and local expansion in hypercubes

Zilin Jiang, Amir Yehudayoff

Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, School of (SoMSS)

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We prove a vertex isoperimetric inequality for the n-dimensional Hamming ball B_n(R) of radius R. The isoperimetric inequality is sharp up to a constant factor for sets that are comparable to B_n(R) in size. A key step in the proof is a local expansion phenomenon in hypercubes.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	P1.15
Journal	Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
Volume	29
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.37236/9860
State	Published - 2022

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Theoretical Computer Science
Geometry and Topology
Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
Computational Theory and Mathematics
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