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Hardness of approximation, aka inapproximability.

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Planted Clique in G(n,p), varying p

If $p$ is constant, then the size of the maximum clique in the $G(n,p)$ model is almost everywhere a constant multiple of $\log n$, with the constant proportional to $\log (1/p)$. (See Bollobás, p.28 …
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Examples of hardness phase transitions

A particularly striking example of a phase transition is the maximum degree bound for Exactly-$k$-SAT (X$k$SAT), in which each clause contains exactly $k$ distinct literals. The problem flips from be …
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When is relaxed counting hard?

Some comments: not an answer. If $c$ is small enough with respect to the number of vertices in the graph, then the improper colourings will add up to less than 1. Hence there is a trivial reduction …
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