Hardness of Approximating Problems on Cubic Graphs
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Four fundamental graph problems, Minimum vertex cover, Maximum independent set, Minimum dominating set and Maximum cut, are shown to be APX-complete even for cubic graphs. This means that unless P=NP these problems do not admit any polynomial time approximation scheme on input graphs of degree bounded by three.
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