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Introduction: MaxCut Via Semidefinite Programming

Bernd Gärtner () and Jiří Matoušek ()
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Bernd Gärtner: ETH Zurich, Institute of Theoretical Computer Science
Jiří Matoušek: Charles University, Department of Applied Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 1 in Approximation Algorithms and Semidefinite Programming, 2012, pp 3-14 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Semidefinite programming is considered among the most powerful tools in the theory and practice of approximation algorithms. We begin our exposition with the Goemans–Williamson algorithm for the MaxCut problem (i.e., the problem of computing an edge cut with the maximum possible number of edges in a given graph). This is the first approximation algorithm (from 1995) based on semidefinite programming and it still belongs among the simplest and most impressive results in this area.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22015-9_1

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