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Conditional Hardness of Approximating Satisfiable Max 3CSP-q

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In this article, we study the approximability of satisfiable Max 3CSP-q for q > 3 be a prime. We give a \((\frac{1}{q}+\frac{1}{q^2}-\frac{1}{q^3})+\epsilon\)-hardness result for approximate Max 3CSP-q even on satisfiable instances, conditioned on Khot’s d-to-1 Conjecture, for any finite constant integer d < q/2.

This work is supported by Hundred Talent Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences under Angsheng Li.

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Tang, L. (2009). Conditional Hardness of Approximating Satisfiable Max 3CSP-q . In: Dong, Y., Du, DZ., Ibarra, O. (eds) Algorithms and Computation. ISAAC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5878. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10631-6_93

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