A remark on Kashin's discrepancy argument and partial coloring in the Komlós conjecture

Afonso S. Bandeira, Antoine Maillard, Nikita Zhivotovskiy

Abstract: In this expository note, we discuss an early partial coloring result of B. Kashin [C. R. Acad. Bulgare Sci., 1985]. Although this result only implies Spencer's six standard deviations [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 1985] up to a $\log\log n$ factor, Kashin's argument gives a simple proof of the existence of a constant discrepancy partial coloring in the setup of Koml\'{o}s conjecture.