Title
On the Hardness of Approximating Multicut and Sparsest-Cut
Abstract
We show that the Multicut, Sparsest-Cut, and Min-2CNF ≡ Deletion problems are NP-hard to approximate within every constant factor, assuming the Unique Games Conjecture of Khot (2002). A quantitatively stronger version of the conjecture implies an inapproximability factor of \(\Omega(\sqrt{\log \log n}).\)
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/s00037-006-0210-9
conference on computational complexity
Keywords
DocType
Volume
hardness of approximation,fourier analysis
Journal
15
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
2
1420-8954
0-7695-2364-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
112
6.23
30
Authors
5
Search Limit
100112
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuchi Chawla11872186.94
Robert Krauthgamer21417103.80
Ravi Kumar3139321642.48
Yuval Rabani42265274.98
D. Sivakumar53515389.02