A Note on the Joint Entropy of N/2-Wise Independence
Amey Bhangale, Aditya Potukuchi · 2018
In this note, we prove a tight lower bound on the joint entropy of n unbiased Bernoulli random variables which are n/2-wise independent. For general k-wise independence, we give new lower bounds by adapting Navon and Samorodnitsky's Fourier proof of the `LP bound' on error correcting codes. This counts as partial progress on a problem asked by Gavinsky and Pudlak in [3].