On hard instances of approximate vertex cover

  • Authors:
  • Sundar Vishwanathan

  • Affiliations:
  • IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG)
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We show that if there is a 2 − &epsis; approximation algorithm for vertex cover on graphs with vector chromatic number at most 2 + δ, then there is a 2 − f(&epsis;, δ) approximation algorithm for vertex cover for all graphs.