We show how to find in Hamiltonian graphs a cycle of length
$n^{\Omega(1/\log\log n)}$. This is a consequence of a more general
result in which we show that if $G$ has maximum degree $d$ and has a
cycle with $k$ vertices (or a 3-cyclable minor $H$ with $k$ vertices),
then ... more >>>

We construct the first constant time value approximation schemes (CTASs) for Metric and Quasi-Metric MAX-rCSP problems for any $r \ge 2$ in a preprocessed metric model of computation, improving over the previous results of [FKKV05] proven for the general core-dense MAX-rCSP problems. They entail also the first sublinear approximation schemes ... more >>>

We consider the problem of amplifying uniform average-case hardness
of languages in $\NP$, where hardness is with respect to $\BPP$
algorithms. We introduce the notion of \emph{monotone}
error-correcting codes, and show that hardness amplification for
$\NP$ is essentially equivalent to constructing efficiently
\emph{locally} encodable and \emph{locally} list-decodable monotone
codes. The ... more >>>