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# Subexponential Algorithms for dto-1 Two-Prover Games and for Certifying Almost Perfect Expansion

@inproceedings{Steurer2010SubexponentialAF,
title={Subexponential Algorithms for dto-1 Two-Prover Games and for Certifying Almost Perfect Expansion},
author={David Steurer},
year={2010}
}
A question raised by the recent subexponential algorithm for Unique Games (Arora, Barak, Steurer, FOCS 2010) is what other “hard-looking” problems admit good approximation algorithms with subexponential complexity. In this work, we give such an algorithm for d-to-1 two-prover games, a broad class of constraint satisfaction problems. Our algorithm has several consequences for Khot’s d-to-1 Conjectures. We also give a related subexponential algorithm for certifying that small sets in a graph have…

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