Lecture 28 Approximation of Set Cover
Min Set Cover Red + Green
Greedy Algorithm
Observation
Theorem
Theorem Greedy Algorithm produces an approximation within ln n +1 from optimal. The same result holds for weighted set-cover.
Theorem Proof.
Hierarchy of Approximation
Theorem Proved using PCP system
MCDS Theorem (Guha-Khuller, 1998)
NP=P!
NP=P!
Connected Vertex-Cover Given a connected graph, find a minimum vertex-cover which induces a connected subgraph.
Theorem Connected Vertex-Cover has a 3-approximation.
Weighted Connected Vertex-Cover Given a vertex-weighted connected graph, find a connected vertex-cover with minimum total weight. Theorem Weighted Connected Vertex-Cover has a (1+ln Δ)-approximation where Δ is the maximum node degree of input graph. This is the best-possible!!!
Theorem
NP=P!
NP=P!