English

How to Play Unique Games on Expanders

Data Structures and Algorithms 2009-03-03 v1

Abstract

In this note we improve a recent result by Arora, Khot, Kolla, Steurer, Tulsiani, and Vishnoi on solving the Unique Games problem on expanders. Given a (1ε)(1-\varepsilon)-satisfiable instance of Unique Games with the constraint graph GG, our algorithm finds an assignment satisfying at least a 1Cε/hG1- C \varepsilon/h_G fraction of all constraints if ε<cλG\varepsilon < c \lambda_G where hGh_G is the edge expansion of GG, λG\lambda_G is the second smallest eigenvalue of the Laplacian of GG, and CC and cc are some absolute constants.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0903.0367,
  title  = {How to Play Unique Games on Expanders},
  author = {Konstantin Makarychev and Yury Makarychev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.0367},
  year   = {2009}
}
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