LIPIcs - Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics. Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2018)
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Abstract
We prove that approximating the rank of a 3-tensor to within a factor of 1 + 1/1852 - delta, for any delta > 0, is NP-hard over any field. We do this via reduction from bounded occurrence 2-SAT