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Completely inapproximable monotone and antimonotone parameterized problems

Computational Complexity 2017-11-13 v1

Abstract

We prove that weighted circuit satisfiability for monotone or antimonotone circuits has no fixed-parameter tractable approximation algorithm with any approximation ratio function ρ\rho, unless FPTW[1]FPT\neq W[1]. In particular, not having such an fpt-approximation algorithm implies that these problems have no polynomial-time approximation algorithms with ratio ρ(OPT)\rho(OPT) for any nontrivial function ρ\rho.

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@article{arxiv.1711.03886,
  title  = {Completely inapproximable monotone and antimonotone parameterized problems},
  author = {Dániel Marx},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.03886},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Conference version in CCC 2010

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