Minimization of Half-Products

  • Authors:
  • T. Badics;E. Boros

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Mathematics of Operations Research
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

In this paper a special class of quadratic functions, the so called half-products are considered. It is shown that while the minimization over the set of binary n-vectors for half-products is NP-complete, an ε-approximating solution can be found in polynomial time for any ε 0.