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Randomised Approximation in the Tutte Plane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

D. J. A. Welsh
D. J. A. Welsh
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute and Merton College, University of Oxford
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Abstract

It is shown that unless NP collapses to random polynomial time RP, there can be no fully polynomial randomised approximation scheme for the antiferromagnetic version of the Q-state Potts model.

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Research Article
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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 137 - 143
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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