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Ryan O'Donnell Tutorial on Hardness of Approximation - Part 3

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This tutorial develops gadget constructions for hardness-of-approximation results for Max 3-LIN and Max-Cut. It introduces Fourier analysis, noisy influences, and the Majority Is Stablest theorem for analyzing these gadgets, without presenting full proofs.

Syllabus

Intro
Max 3 Lin
Max 3 Lin instance
Variables
Optimal solutions
Notation
Fourier analysis
Suggestive F
Formula
Edge weights
Fourier coefficients
G3 and G4
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Ryan O'Donnell

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