The Littlewood-Offord problem in high dimensions and a conjecture of Frankl and Füredi

Terence Tao, Van Vu

Published 2010-02-26, updated 2011-04-04Version 2

We give a new bound on the probability that the random sum $\xi_1 v_1 +...+ \xi_n v_n$ belongs to a ball of fixed radius, where the $\xi_i$ are iid Bernoulli random variables and the $v_i$ are vectors in $\R^d$. As an application, we prove a conjecture of Frankl and F\"uredi (raised in 1988), which can be seen as the high dimensional version of the classical Littlewood-Offord-Erd\H os theorem.