Lectures on Noise Sensitivity and Percolation
by Christophe Garban, Jeffrey E. Steif
Publisher: arXiv 2011
Number of pages: 150
Description:
The goal of this set of lectures is to combine two seemingly unrelated topics: (1) The study of Boolean functions, a field particularly active in computer science; (2) Some models in statistical physics, mostly percolation.
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