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Khot's 2-to-1 Games Conjecture with perfect completeness

Claims Theorem 1.1: for every fixed rational δ∈(0,1)\delta\in(0,1) there are q=q(δ)q=q(\delta) and a deterministic polynomial-time reduction from 3-SAT to unweighted 2-to-1 games over [2q],[q][2q],[q] with exact two-element fibers, value 1 on YES and at most δ\delta on NO instances. Corollaries make the Guruswami-Sinop maximum kk-colorable subgraph hardness unconditional and recover Hastad's satisfiable Not-Two result. It does NOT prove the Rich 2-to-1 variant of Braverman-Khot-Minzer, the Unique Games Conjecture, or anything about alphabet size as a function of δ\delta beyond existence.

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Khot's 2-to-1 Games Conjecture with perfect completeness

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Claims Theorem 1.1: for every fixed rational δ∈(0,1)\delta\in(0,1) there are q=q(δ)q=q(\delta) and a deterministic polynomial-time reduction from 3-SAT to unweighted 2-to-1 games over [2q],[q][2q],[q] with exact two-element fibers, value 1 on YES and at most δ\delta on NO instances. Corollaries make the Guruswami-Sinop maximum kk-colorable subgraph hardness unconditional and recover Hastad's satisfiable Not-Two result. It does N…

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Claims Theorem 1.1: for every fixed rational δ∈(0,1)\delta\in(0,1) there are q=q(δ)q=q(\delta) and a deterministic polynomial-time reduction from 3-SAT to unweighted 2-to-1 games over [2q],[q][2q],[q] with exact two-element fibers, value 1 on YES and at most δ\delta on NO instances. Corollaries make the Guruswami-Sinop maximum kk-colorable subgraph hardness unconditional and recover Hastad's satisfiable Not-Two result. It does NOT prove the Rich 2-to-1 variant of Braverman-Khot-Minzer, the Unique Games Conjecture, or anything about alphabet size as a function of δ\delta beyond existence.

Claims Theorem 1.1: for every fixed rational δ∈(0,1)\delta\in(0,1) there are q=q(δ)q=q(\delta) and a deterministic polynomial-time reduction from 3-SAT to unweighted 2-to-1 games over [2q],[q][2q],[q] with exact two-element fibers, value 1 on YES and at most δ\delta on NO instances. Corollaries make the Guruswami-Sinop maximum kk-colorable subgraph hardness unconditional and recover Hastad's satisfiable Not-Two result. It does NOT prove the Rich 2-to-1 variant of Braverman-Khot-Minzer, the Unique Games Conjecture, or anything about alphabet size as a function of δ\delta beyond existence.

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