Approximating the Minimum Bisection Size

نویسندگان

  • Uriel Feige
  • Robert Krauthgamer
  • Kobbi Nissim
چکیده

A bisection of a graph with n vertices is a partition of its vertices into two sets, each of size n=2. The bisection size is the number of edges connecting the two sets. Finding the bisection of minimum size is NP-hard. We present an algorithm that nds a bisection that is within O(p n log n) of optimal. No sublinear approximation ratio for bisection was previously known.

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