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Expose the independent coordinates in order and let $M_i=\mathbb{E}[f\mid X_1,\dots ,X_i]$, $M_0=\mathbb{E}f$. This is the Doob exposure martingale. For fixed earlier coordinates, write $h_i(x)=\mathbb{E}[f\mid X_i=x,\text{earlier coordinates}]$. The remaining coordinates have the same distribution for all $x$, and the coordinate-change hypothesis gives $|h_i(x)-h_i(y)|\le c_i$. Thus the conditional range of $M_i-M_{i-1}$ has length at most $c_i$, and its conditional mean is zero.

Here is the Hoeffding lemma needed for the sharp constant. If a mean-zero random variable $Y$ lies in an interval of length $c$, set $\psi (s)=\log \mathbb{E}{e}^{sY}$. Its second derivative is the variance under the exponentially tilted law. Under any such law, variance is at most $c^2/4$, by comparison with squared distance from the interval midpoint. Since $\psi (0)={\psi }^{\prime }(0)=0$, integration gives $\psi (s)\le s^2{c}^2/8$ for all real $s$. Applying this conditionally and iterating the tower property yieldsThe exponential Markov bound now givesFor $C>0$ choose $s=4t/C$. Apply the same argument to $-f$ and add the two tails, proving the McDiarmid inequalityFor $C=0$, $f$ is constant almost surely, and every positive-deviation probability is zero.

For the neighbourhood application, the ambient points must be elements of $\mathcal{P}[n]$, equivalently binary strings; the printed $y\in [n]$ is a type error. An $n$-element ambient set could not generally satisfy the stated exponential-size lower bound. Use the uniform product probability space on the Boolean cube and set $F(y)=d(y,A)$. Flipping one coordinate changes this Hamming distance by at most one, so $C=n$. Put $\mu =\mathbb{E}F$. Since $\mathrm{Pr}(F=0)=|A|/2^n\ge \epsilon$, the proved two-sided inequality gives, for $\mu >0$,Consequently $\mu \le \sqrt{(n/2)\log (2/\epsilon )}=t/2$; the same bound is immediate if $\mu =0$. ThereforeThis proves the Boolean cube expansion from bounded differences:The meaningful range is $0<\epsilon \le 1$; real radii are interpreted by the inequality on the integer-valued Hamming distance. The converted TeX's final $2^{2n}$ is another corruption: the original PDF has $2^n$.