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APX-Hardness of Maximizing Nash Social Welfare with Indivisible Items

arXiv:1507.01159

Abstract

We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible items to agents with additive utilities to maximize the Nash social welfare. Cole and Gkatzelis recently proved that this problem admits a constant factor approximation. We complement their result by showing that this problem is APX-hard.

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