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Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved. Mat., 2025 Number 9, Pages 3–12 (Mi ivm10115)

Direct and inverse mean value properties for polylinear functions and their application

D. N. Barotov

Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, 49 Leningradsky Ave., Moscow, 125167 Russia

Abstract: This paper is devoted to the formulation and proof of the theorems on the mean value of a polylinear function, similar to the direct and inverse theorems on the mean value of harmonic functions. It is proved that the value of an arbitrary polylinear function $f_P(x)$ at the central point of $\mathbb{G}$—an arbitrary $n$-dimensional coordinate parallelepiped—is equal to the mean value of the function $f_P(x)$ over the set of $k$-dimensional faces $\mathbb{G}$ for any $k\in\{0,\ldots,n\}$. Based on this, it is justified that just once, by calculating the value of the polylinear continuation $f_P(x)$ of an arbitrary Boolean function $f_B(x)$ at the central point of an $n$-dimensional unit cube, one can find the number of Boolean vectors on which the Boolean function $f_B(x)$ takes the value 1 and thereby, in particular, determine the satisfiability of the Boolean function $f_B(x)$. It has also been established that such a property is characteristic only of polylinear functions, i.e., it has been proven that if for any $\mathbb{G}$$n$-dimensional coordinate parallelepiped and at least for some number $k\in\{0,\ldots,n\}$, the value of the continuous function $f(x)$ at the central point $\mathbb{G}$ is equal to the mean value of the function $f(x)$ over the set of $k$-dimensional faces of $\mathbb{G}$, then the function $f(x)$ is polylinear.

Keywords: polylinear function, mean value property, Boolean function.

UDC: 517.572: 519.716

Received: 18.06.2024
Revised: 20.09.2024
Accepted: 18.12.2024

DOI: 10.26907/0021-3446-2025-9-3-12



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