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  MAX3SAT is exponentially hard to approximate if NP has positive dimension (2002) [24 citations — 12 self]

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by John M. Hitchcock
Theoretical Computer Science
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~jhitchco/papers/meha.ps
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Abstract:

Under the hypothesis that NP has positive p-dimension, we prove that any approximation algorithm A for MAX3SAT must satisfy at least one of the following:

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