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2 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

   Linear Level Lasserre Lower Bounds for Certain k-CSPs

   Schoenebeck · Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science · 2008

   The paper shows that a high level of the Lasserre hierarchy cannot disprove random k-CSP instances, which gives integrality gaps for problems such as vertex cover and hypergraph independent set.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper says its work is the first construction of an integrality gap for the Lasserre hierarchy, a method for approximating hard optimisation problems.“This is the first construction of a Lasserre integrality gap.”

2. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Detecting the solution space of vertex cover by mutual determinations and backbones

   Wei, Zhang, Guo and Zheng · Physical Review E · 2012

   The paper defines node interactions in random graphs and builds an algorithm that uses them with backbones to obtain the solution space of the Vertex-cover problem.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper defines a new structure, 'interaction between nodes', in random graphs to study Vertex-cover solutions; it leads to frustration and long-range correlation.“Aiming at detecting the solution space of Vertex-cover, a new structure named interaction between nodes is defined and discovered for random graph, which results in the emergence of the frustration and long-range correlation phenomenon.”