P-complete problems and approximate solutions

  • Authors:
  • Sartaj Sahni;Teofilo Gonzales

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SWAT '74 Proceedings of the 15th Annual Symposium on Switching and Automata Theory (swat 1974)
  • Year:
  • 1974

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Abstract

We study the class of P-Complete problems and show the following: i) for any constant ε 0 there is a P-complete problem for which an ε-approximate solution can be found in linear time ii) there exist P-Complete problems for which linear time approximate solutions that get closer and closer to the optimal (with increasing problem size) can be found iii) there exist P-Complete problems for which the approximation problems are also P-Complete.