Definition.Spectral Sample [boolean/def/spec-sample]

For 𝑓:{±1}𝑛{±1}, the spectral sample for 𝑓, notated 𝒮︀𝑓, is the probability distribution on subsets of [𝑛] in which 𝐏𝐫[𝑆]=𝑓̂(𝑆)2.

We write 𝑺𝒮︀𝑓 for a set drawn from this distribution.