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    Sub-linear Upper Bounds on Fourier dimension of Boolean Functions in terms of Fourier sparsity

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    We prove that the Fourier dimension of any Boolean function with Fourier sparsity ss is at most O(s2/3)O\left(s^{2/3}\right). Our proof method yields an improved bound of O~(s)\widetilde{O}(\sqrt{s}) assuming a conjecture of Tsang~\etal~\cite{tsang}, that for every Boolean function of sparsity ss there is an affine subspace of F2n\mathbb{F}_2^n of co-dimension O(\poly\log s) restricted to which the function is constant. This conjectured bound is tight upto poly-logarithmic factors as the Fourier dimension and sparsity of the address function are quadratically separated. We obtain these bounds by observing that the Fourier dimension of a Boolean function is equivalent to its non-adaptive parity decision tree complexity, and then bounding the latter
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