We provide the first interesting explicit lower bounds on efficient approximability for two closely related optimization problems in graphs, MINIMUM EDGE DOMINATING SET and MINIMUM MAXIMAL MATCHING. We show that it is NP-hard to approximate the solution of both problems to within any constant factor smaller than 7/6. The result extends with negligible loss to bounded degree graphs and to everywhere dense graphs. © Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2006.
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Chlebík, M., & Chlebíková, J. (2006). Approximation hardness of edge dominating set problems. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 11(3), 279–290. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-006-7908-0
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