Tight bounds on the Fourier growth of bounded functions on the hypercube

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We give tight bounds on the degree $\ell$ homogenous parts $f_\ell$ of a bounded function $f$ on the cube.

• We show that if $f: \{\pm 1\}^n \rightarrow [-1,1]$ has degree $d$, then $\| f_\ell \|_\infty$ is bounded by $d^\ell/\ell!$, and $\| \hat{f}_\ell \|_1$ is bounded by $d^\ell e^{\binom{\ell+1}{2}} n^{\frac{\ell-1}{2}}$.
• We describe applications to pseudorandomness and learning theory.
• We use similar methods to generalize the classical Pisier's inequality from convex analysis.