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Projection Games Conjecture


A projection game, also called a label-cover instance, consists of a bipartite graph G=(A,B,E), finite label sets Sigma_A and Sigma_B, and, for every edge e=(a,b), a projection pi_e:Sigma_A->Sigma_B. A labeling satisfies e when the label of b equals the projection of the label of a. The value of the game is the largest fraction of edges that can be satisfied simultaneously.

The projection games conjecture asserts that there is a constant c>0 such that, for every epsilon>=N^(-c), a satisfiability instance of size n can be reduced in polynomial time to a projection game of size N=n^(1+o(1))poly(1/epsilon), alphabet size poly(1/epsilon), perfect completeness, and soundness at most epsilon (Moshkovitz 2015). The conjecture is a strengthening of the PCP theorem.


See also

Closest Vector Problem, PCP Theorem, Polynomial Time, Satisfiability Problem

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References

Moshkovitz, D. "The Projection Games Conjecture and the NP-Hardness of lnn-Approximating Set-Cover." Theory Comput. 11, 221-235, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4086/toc.2015.v011a007.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Projection Games Conjecture." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ProjectionGamesConjecture.html

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