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theoretical-computer-science / Computational complexity; PPAD and equilibrium computation
The PCP-for-PPAD conjecture of Babichenko, Papadimitriou and Rubinstein (quasilinear form)
Theorem 1.1: there are fixed rational 0<ε<1/10 and 0<δ<1, and deterministic polynomial-time algorithms R,D, such that R maps an End-of-Line instance of length N to a generalized circuit of total binary length at most AN⌈log2(N+2)⌉b, every generalized circuit has an acceptable rational assignment of polynomially bounded length, and from any such assignment ε-satisfying all but a δ fraction of gates D recovers an End-of-Line solution. This also implies the weaker polynomial-size PCP-for-PPAD statement. It does not by itself give new Nash lower bounds; those (Rubinstein, Golowich) still need an exponential-time hypothesis for PPAD.