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Towards an optimal query efficient PCP? (English) Zbl 1361.68099

Proceedings of the 4th conference on innovations in theoretical computer science, ITCS’13, Berkeley, CA, USA, January 9–12, 2013. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (ISBN 978-1-4503-1859-4). 173-186 (2013).

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68Q17 Computational difficulty of problems (lower bounds, completeness, difficulty of approximation, etc.)
05C65 Hypergraphs
68Q25 Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity
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