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Some APX-completeness results for cubic graphs. (English) Zbl 0939.68052
Summary: Four fundamental graph problems, minimum vertex cover, maximum independent set, minimum dominating set and maximum cut, are shown to be APX-complete even for cubic graphs. Therefore, unless P=NP, these problems do not admit any polynomial time approximation scheme on input graphs of degree bounded by three.

##### MSC:
 68Q25 Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity 68R10 Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science
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