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01.05.2013
Parameterized Complexity of Satisfying Almost All Linear Equations over \(\mathbb{F}_{2}\)
Erschienen in: Theory of Computing Systems | Ausgabe 4/2013
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Abstract
The problem MaxLin2 can be stated as follows. We are given a system S of m equations in variables x
1,…,x
n
, where each equation \(\sum_{i \in I_{j}}x_{i} = b_{j}\) is assigned a positive integral weight w
j
and \(b_{j} \in\mathbb{F}_{2}\), I
j
⊆{1,2,…,n} for j=1,…,m. We are required to find an assignment of values in \(\mathbb{F}_{2}\) to the variables in order to maximize the total weight of the satisfied equations.
Let W be the total weight of all equations in S. We consider the following parameterized version of MaxLin2: decide whether there is an assignment satisfying equations of total weight at least W−k, where k is a nonnegative parameter. We prove that this parameterized problem is W[1]-hard even if each equation of S has exactly three variables and every variable appears in exactly three equations and, moreover, each weight w
j
equals 1 and no two equations have the same left-hand side. We show the tightness of this result by proving that if each equation has at most two variables then the parameterized problem is fixed-parameter tractable. We also prove that if no variable appears in more than two equations then we can maximize the total weight of satisfied equations in polynomial time.