# Better Inapproximability Results for MaxClique, Chromatic Number and Min-3Lin-Deletion

@inproceedings{Khot2006BetterIR,
title={Better Inapproximability Results for MaxClique, Chromatic Number and Min-3Lin-Deletion},
author={Subhash Khot and Ashok Kumar Ponnuswami},
booktitle={ICALP},
year={2006}
}
• Published in ICALP 10 July 2006
• Computer Science, Mathematics

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