The expected relative error of the polyhedral approximation of the max-cut problem

  • Authors:
  • Svatopluk Poljak;Zsolt Tuza

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Malostranské námstí 25, 118 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic;Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1111 Budapest, Kende u. 13-17, Hungary

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

We study the expected relative error of a linear relaxation of the max-cut problem in the random graph G"n","p. We prove that this error tends to 13 as n - ~ of the edge probability p = p(n) is at least @W(@/logn/n), and tends to 1 if pn - ~ and pn^1^-^a - 0 for all a 0.