Games, complexity classes, and approximation algorithms. (Q1126837)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1184381
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Games, complexity classes, and approximation algorithms.
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1184381

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    Games, complexity classes, and approximation algorithms. (English)
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    5 August 1998
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    Summary: We survey recent results about game-theoretic characterizations of computational complexity classes. We also show how these results are used to prove that certain natural optimization functions are as hard to approximate closely as they are to compute exactly.
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