Conditional Hardness for Approximate Coloring

dc.creatorDinur, Irit
dc.creatorMossel, Elchanan
dc.creatorRegev, Oded
dc.date2005-04-14
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:22:52Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:22:52Z
dc.descriptionWe study the coloring problem: Given a graph G, decide whether $c(G) \leq q$ or $c(G) \ge Q$, where c(G) is the chromatic number of G. We derive conditional hardness for this problem for any constant $3 \le q < Q$. For $q\ge 4$, our result is based on Khot's 2-to-1 conjecture [Khot'02]. For $q=3$, we base our hardness result on a certain `fish shaped' variant of his conjecture. We also prove that the problem almost coloring is hard for any constant $\eps>0$, 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 $\eps$ fraction of the vertices without monochromatic edges, and the case where the graph contains no independent set of relative size at least $\eps$. Our result is based on bounding various generalized noise-stability quantities using the invariance principle of Mossel et al [MOO'05].
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0504062
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0504062
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/32719
dc.subjectComputational Complexity
dc.subjectProbability
dc.titleConditional Hardness for Approximate Coloring
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