Functions without influential coalitions
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We give counterexamples to a conjecture of Benny Chor and another of the second author, both from the late 80s, by exhibiting functions for which the influences of large coalitions are unexpectedly small relative to the expectations of the functions.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1308.2794 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013