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Subhash Khot: Unique Games Conjecture

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People, Problems, and Proofs

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This chapter surveys recent results on Subhash Khot’s Unique Games Conjecture. This conjecture has been a unifying force in complexity theory, but these results hint at its being false. Special cases are suggested whose analysis may also delineate the conjecture’s practical implications.

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Lipton, R.J., Regan, K.W. (2013). Subhash Khot: Unique Games Conjecture. In: People, Problems, and Proofs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41422-0_6

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