No Small Linear Program Approximates Vertex Cover Within a Factor 2 − ɛ

DOI10.1287/MOOR.2017.0918zbMath1435.68110arXiv1503.00753OpenAlexW2892107877MaRDI QIDQ5219712

Sebastian Pokutta, Samuel Fiorini, Abbas Bazzi, Ola Svensson

Publication date: 12 March 2020

Published in: Mathematics of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.00753

zbMATH Keywords

linear programmingindependent setvertex coverhardness of approximationextended formulations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear programming (90C05) Combinatorial optimization (90C27) Edge subsets with special properties (factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing, etc.) (05C70) Computational difficulty of problems (lower bounds, completeness, difficulty of approximation, etc.) (68Q17) Vertex subsets with special properties (dominating sets, independent sets, cliques, etc.) (05C69) Approximation algorithms (68W25)

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