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Sparsification of Binary CSPs

Data Structures and Algorithms 2020-03-25 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

A cut ε\varepsilon-sparsifier of a weighted graph GG is a re-weighted subgraph of GG of (quasi)linear size that preserves the size of all cuts up to a multiplicative factor of ε\varepsilon. Since their introduction by Bencz\'ur and Karger [STOC'96], cut sparsifiers have proved extremely influential and found various applications. Going beyond cut sparsifiers, Filtser and Krauthgamer [SIDMA'17] gave a precise classification of which binary Boolean CSPs are sparsifiable. In this paper, we extend their result to binary CSPs on arbitrary finite domains.

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@article{arxiv.1901.00754,
  title  = {Sparsification of Binary CSPs},
  author = {Silvia Butti and Stanislav Zivny},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.00754},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Full version of a STACS'19 paper

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