Hardness of Approximation Between P and NP. Aviad Rubinstein
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Название: Hardness of Approximation Between P and NP

Автор: Aviad Rubinstein

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Программы

Серия: ACM Books

isbn: 9781947487222

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СКАЧАТЬ alt="image"/>, and image otherwise. We similarly define Alice’s third component image.

      Finally, the first component of Bob’s utility is given by:

image

      where the function image is as defined in Proposition 3.1.

       3.5.4.2 Analysis of Game

      In this subsection, we prove the reduction from SIMULATION END-OF-THE-LINE to finding an ϵ4-ANE. The proof proceeds via a sequence of lemmas that establish the structure of any ϵ4-ANE.

      In every ϵ4-ANE image, it holds that image with probability of at least 1 − ϵ2 (where the probability is taken over image).

      Proof We denote image as the vector of expectations, and image as the vector of variances. For every x we can rewrite

      Since the variance of the yi’s, as well as that of image and image, does not depend on x, Alice’s best response to image is

image

      where [·]ϵ denotes the rounding to the closest ϵ integer multiplication. x* yields a payoff of at least

image

      Note that in every ϵ4-ANE Alice assigns a probability of at most 1 − ϵ2 to actions that are ϵ2-far from optimal. By Equation (3.2) this implies that the probability that Alice choosing a vector x that satisfies image is at most ϵ2.

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      In every ϵ4-ANE image, if the first m-tuple of coordinates of image is 6h-close to the binary encoding E(v) of a vertex v, then

      with probability of at least 1 − O(ϵ4) (where the probability is taken over image).

       Proof

      By Lemma 3.3 and the triangle inequality, with probability of at least 1 − ϵ2, the first m-tuple of x is O(h)-close to E(v). Rounding to Rv(x) ∈ {0, 1}m can at most double the distance to E(v) in each coordinate. Therefore, the Hamming distance of Rv(x) and E(v) is O(h). Hence Rv(x) is correctly decoded as Dv(x) = v, with probability of at least 1 − ϵ2.

      Since image do not affect image, Bob’s utility from guessing vB = v, and image, is at least 1 − ϵ2, whereas his utility from guessing any other guess is at most ϵ2. Therefore, Bob assigns probability at least 1 − ϵ4/(1 − 2ϵ2) to actions that satisfy (3.3).

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      A similar lemma holds for the second m-tuple of x and the vertex w:

       Lemma 3.5

      In every ϵ4-ANE image, if the second m-tuple of coordinates of image is 6h-close to the binary encoding E(w) of a vertex w, then

image

      with probability of at least 1 − O(ϵ4) (where the probability is taken over image).

      Since Alice receives the correct vB and βB, we also have:

      In every ϵ4-ANE image, if the first m-tuple of coordinates of image is 6h-close to the binary encoding E(v) of a vertex v, then

image

      with probability 1 − O(ϵ4) (where the probability is taken over image and image).

       Proof

      Follows immediately from Lemma 3.4 and the fact that СКАЧАТЬ