A Mildly Exponential Approximation Algorithm for the Permanent

Algorithmica (New York)

Volumn 16, Issue 4-5, 1996, Pages 392-401

  Jerrum, M ^a   Vazirani, U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximation algorithms; Combinatorial enumeration; Perfect matchings; Permanent; Rapidly mixing Markov chains

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542500795     PISSN: 01784617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01940871     Document Type: Article

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