Problems / combinatorics
combinatorics / Probabilistic combinatorics; Bernoulli product measures and covers
Talagrand's discrete convexity conjecture
Theorem 1.1: with k=275, for every N≥1, p∈(0,1) and D⊆2[N], μp(D)≥1−1/k implies Ek(D) is p-small. Consequences: a containment cover for large values of positive selector processes (recovering Park-Pham's theorem), and with Li's fractional result and the companion rounding theorem, E2(D) is (p/C)-small when μp(D)>1/2. Earlier, Hua-Song-Tudose derived a discrete statement with three unions at density pC and Park one with two unions at a loglog(1/p) loss. The constant k is far from optimal and the Gaussian convexity question is a different problem.