Abstract
We develop a new technique for proving concentration inequalities which relate between the variance and influences of Boolean functions. Second, we strengthen several classical inequalities concerning the influences of a Boolean function, showing that near-maximizers must have large vertex boundaries. An inequality due to Talagrand states that for a Boolean function f, (f)≤ C∑ i=1 n i (f)/1+log(1/ i (f)). We give a lower bound for the size of the vertex boundary of functions saturating this inequality. As a corollary, we show that for sets that satisfy the edge-isoperimetric inequality or the Kahn-Kalai-Linial inequality up to a constant, a constant proportion of the mass is in the inner vertex boundary. Lastly, we improve a quantitative relation between influences and noise stability given by Keller and Kindler. Our proofs rely on techniques based on stochastic calculus, and bypass the use of hypercontractivity common to previous proofs.
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