Extending SDP integrality gaps to sherali-adams with applications to quadratic programming and maxcutgain

  • Authors:
  • Siavosh Benabbas;Avner Magen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto;Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

  • Venue:
  • IPCO'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We show how under certain conditions one can extend constructions of integrality gaps for semidefinite relaxations into ones that hold for stronger systems: those SDP to which the so-called k-level constraints of the Sherali-Adams hierarchy are added. The value of k above depends on properties of the problem. We present two applications, to the Quadratic Programming problem and to the MaxCutGain problem. Our technique is inspired by a paper of Raghavendra and Steurer [Raghavendra and Steurer, FOCS 09] and our result gives a doubly exponential improvement for Quadratic Programming on another result by the same authors [Raghavendra and Steurer, FOCS 09]. They provide tight integrality-gap for the system above which is valid up to k=(loglogn)Ω(1) whereas we give such a gap for up to k=nΩ(1).