On the Hardness of Approximating Max k-Cut and Its Dual

  • Authors:
  • Viggo Kann;Sanjeev Khanna;Jens Lagergren;Alessandro Panconesi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • On the Hardness of Approximating Max k-Cut and Its Dual
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

We study the Max k-Cut problem and its dual, the Min k-Partition problem. In the Min k-Partition problem, given a graph G=(V,E) and positive edge weights, we want to find an edge set of minimum weight whose removal makes G k-colorable. For the Max k-Cut problem we show that, if P!=NP, no polynomial time approximation algorithm can achieve a relative error better than (1/34)k. It is well known that a relative error of 1/k is obtained by a naive randomized heuristic. For the Min k-Partition problem, we show that for k