Title
Majority is stablest: discrete and SoS
Abstract
The Majority is Stablest Theorem has numerous applications in hardness of approximation and social choice theory. We give a new proof of the Majority is Stablest Theorem by induction on the dimension of the discrete cube. Unlike the previous proof, it uses neither the "invariance principle" nor Borell's result in Gaussian space. The new proof is general enough to include all previous variants of majority is stablest such as "it ain't over until it's over" and "Majority is most predictable". Moreover, the new proof allows us to derive a proof of Majority is Stablest in a constant level of the Sum of Squares hierarchy. This implies in particular that Khot-Vishnoi instance of Max-Cut does not provide a gap instance for the Lasserre hierarchy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.4086/toc.2016.v012a004
Theory of Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
gap instance,constant level,lasserre hierarchy,stablest theorem,gaussian space,new proof,previous variant,squares hierarchy,previous proof,khot-vishnoi instance,unique games conjecture
Conference
12
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1557-2862
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
23
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anindya De123924.77
Elchanan Mossel21725145.16
Joe Neeman325414.51