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Unbounded Violations of the Square-Root Degree Bound

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We disprove the Gopalan–Servedio square-root conjecture, even up to an arbitrary constant factor. For every real C > 0, there is a nonconstant Boolean function $f:\{-1,1\}^n\to\{-1,1\}$ on a finite sign cube such that $\displaystyle \sum_{i=1}^n \widehat f(\{i\})\gt C\sqrt{\deg(f)}.$ Here $\widehat f(\{i\})$ is the linear Fourier coefficient associated with the i th input, and $\deg(f)$ is the degree of the real multilinear polynomial representing f .

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