A Local 2-Approximation Algorithm for the Vertex Cover Problem
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چکیده
We present a distributed 2-approximation algorithm for the minimum vertex cover problem. The algorithm is deterministic, and it runs in (∆+ 1) synchronous communication rounds, where ∆ is the maximum degree of the graph. For ∆ = 3, we give a 2-approximation algorithm also for the weighted version of the problem.
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