Conditional hardness for approximate coloring

  • Authors:
  • Irit Dinur;Elchanan Mossel;Oded Regev

  • Affiliations:
  • Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel;U.C. Berkeley;Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the thirty-eighth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We study the APPROXCOLORING q(Q) problem: Given a graph G, decide whether χ(G) ≤ q or χ(G) ≥ Q. We derive conditional hardness for this problem for any constant 3 ≤ q ε is hard for any constant ε0, assuming Khot's Unique Games conjecture. This is the problem of deciding for a given graph, between the case where one can 3-color all but a ε fraction of the vertices without monochromatic edges, and the case where the graph contains no independent set of relative size at least ε.Our result is based on bounding various generalized noise-stability quantities using the invariance principle of Mossel et al [MOO'05].