U. Feige, S. Goldwasser, L. Lovász, S. Safra, M. Szegedy
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Abstract
The computational complexity of approximating omega (G), the size of the largest clique in a graph G, within a given factor is considered. It is shown that if certain approximation procedures exist, then EXPTIME=NEXPTIME and NP=P.<>