Proof of `NP-hardness of unweighted Max Cut`

groundedproofs/Lax762056Proofs/MaxCutHardness.lean · lax-762056

What this proof establishes

Assuming the claims on the left, the claim on the right holds — checked by the archive's pipeline. Proof code is not displayed here.

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Description

Reduce satisfiability to not-all-equal clauses, then to Max Cut. Complementary literals are joined by an edge, and each clause contributes a triangle. Replacing each edge occurrence by a three-edge path yields a simple unweighted graph.