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STOC
1994
ACM
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Improved non-approximability results
We indicate strong non-approximability factors for central problems: N1/4 for Max Clique; N1/10 for Chromatic Number; and 66/65 for Max 3SAT. Underlying the Max Clique result is a...
Mihir Bellare, Madhu Sudan
FOCS
1995
IEEE
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Free Bits, PCPs and Non-Approximability - Towards Tight Results
This paper continues the investigation of the connection between probabilistically checkable proofs PCPs the approximability of NP-optimization problems. The emphasis is on prov...
Mihir Bellare, Oded Goldreich, Madhu Sudan