Boolean Small-Ball Inequalities for Discrepancy Theory

We prove new small-ball inequalities for boolean matrix-series. The leading example is $\mathbb E_s[{\text{det}(I-S^2)^β\,\mathbf 1_{\{\|S\|<1\}}}]\ge e^{-O(βτ)}$, which holds for boolean matrix-series $S=\sum_i s_iA_i$ formed using symmetric matrices $A_1,\dots,A_n$ and uniformly random signs $s\in