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Local Maxima of Quadratic Boolean Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2015

HUNTER SPINK*
Affiliation:
Trinity College, Cambridge University, United Kingdom (e-mail: hunterspink@gmail.com)
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How many strict local maxima can a real quadratic function on {0, 1}n have? Holzman conjectured a maximum of $\binom{n }{ \lfloor n/2 \rfloor}$ . The aim of this paper is to prove this conjecture. Our approach is via a generalization of Sperner's theorem that may be of independent interest.

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