Abstract
We study the problem where we are given a system of polynomial equations defined by multivariate polynomials over GF[2] of fixed constant degree d > 1 and the aim is to satisfy the maximal number of equations. A random assignment approximates this problem within a factor 2− d and we prove that for any ε > 0, it is NP-hard to obtain a ratio 2− d + ε. When considering instances that are perfectly satisfiable we give a probabilistic polynomial time algorithm that, with high probability, satisfies a fraction 21 − d − 21 − 2d and we prove that it is NP-hard to do better by an arbitrarily small constant. The hardness results are proved in the form of inapproximability results of Max-CSPs where the predicate in question has the desired form and we give some immediate results on approximation resistance of some predicates.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Arora, S., Lund, C., Motwani, R., Sudan, M., Szegedy, M.: Proof verification and intractability of approximation problems. Journal of the ACM 45, 501–555 (1998)
Arora, S., Safra, S.: Probabilistic checking of proofs: a new characterization of NP. Journal of the ACM 45, 70–122 (1998)
Austrin, P., Håstad, J.: On the usefullness of predicates. Manuscript (2011)
Austrin, P., Mossel, E.: Approximation resistant predicates from pairwise independence. Computational Complexity 18, 249–271 (2009)
Bellare, M., Goldreich, O., Sudan, M.: Free bits, PCPs and non-approximability—towards tight results. SIAM Journal on Computing 27, 804–915 (1998)
Håstad, J.: Some optimal inapproximability results. Journal of ACM 48, 798–859 (2001)
Kasami, T., Tokura, N.: On the weight structure of Reed-Muller codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 16, 752–759 (1970)
Moshkovitz, D., Raz, R.: Two query PCP with sub-constant error. Journal of the ACM 57 (2010)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Håstad, J. (2011). Satisfying Degree-d Equations over GF[2]n . In: Goldberg, L.A., Jansen, K., Ravi, R., Rolim, J.D.P. (eds) Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques. APPROX RANDOM 2011 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6845. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22935-0_21
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22935-0_21
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-22934-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-22935-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)