PCPP-Based Reconfiguration Inapproximability: Query Complexity vs. Soundness Gap Trade-offs

Venkatesan Guruswami; Xuandi Ren; Kewen Wu

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PCPP-Based Reconfiguration Inapproximability: Query Complexity vs. Soundness Gap Trade-offs

Venkatesan Guruswami·Xuandi Ren·Kewen Wu

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The Reconfiguration Inapproximability Hypothesis (RIH), recently established by Hirahara-Ohsaka (STOC'24) and Karthik-Manurangsi (ECCC'24), studies the hardness of reconfiguring one solution into another in constraint satisfaction problems (CSP) when restricted to approximate intermediate solutions. In this work, we make a tighter connection between RIH's soundness gap and that of probabilistically checkable proofs of proximity (PCPP). Consequently, we achieve an improved trade-off between soundness and query complexity in Gap CSP Reconfiguration. Our approach leverages a parallelization framework, which also appears in some recent parameterized inapproximability results.

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Venkatesan Guruswami, Xuandi Ren, Kewen Wu. 2025-07-01. PCPP-Based Reconfiguration Inapproximability: Query Complexity vs. Soundness Gap Trade-offs. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01192

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