Sparsification and subexponential approximation
Computational Complexity
2014-02-17 v2 Data Structures and Algorithms
Abstract
Instance sparsification is well-known in the world of exact computation since it is very closely linked to the Exponential Time Hypothesis. In this paper, we extend the concept of sparsification in order to capture subexponential time approximation. We develop a new tool for inapproximability, called approximation preserving sparsification and use it in order to get strong inapproximability results in subexponential time for several fundamental optimization problems as Max Independent Set, Min Dominating Set, Min Feedback Vertex Set, and Min Set Cover.
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@article{arxiv.1402.2843,
title = {Sparsification and subexponential approximation},
author = {Edouard Bonnet and Vangelis Th. Paschos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.2843},
year = {2014}
}
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16 pages