Completeness in approximation classes beyond APX

AbstractWe present a reduction that allows us to establish completeness results for several approximation classes mainly beyond APX. Using it, we extend one of the basic results of S. Khanna, R. Motwani, M. Sudan, and U. Vazirani (On syntactic versus computational views of approximability, SIAM J. Comput. 28 (1998) 164–191) by proving sufficient conditions for getting complete problems for the whole Log-APX, the class of problems approximable within ratios that are logarithms of the size of the instance, as well as for any approximability class beyond APX. We also introduce a new approximability class, called Poly-APX(Δ), dealing with graph-problems approximable with ratios functions of the maximum degree Δ of the input-graph. For this class also, using the proposed reduction, we establish complete problems