The Complexity of Maximum Matroid-Greedoid Intersection and Weighted Greedoid Maximization
<|reference_start|>The Complexity of Maximum Matroid-Greedoid Intersection and Weighted Greedoid Maximization: The maximum intersection problem for a matroid and a greedoid, given by polynomial-time oracles, is shown $NP$-hard by expressing the satisfiability of boolean formulas in 3-conjunctive normal form as such an intersection. The corresponding approximation problems are shown $NP$-hard for certain approximation performance bounds. Moreover, some natural parameterized variants of the problem are shown $W[P]$-hard. The results are in contrast with the maximum matroid-matroid intersection which is solvable in polynomial time by an old result of Edmonds. We also prove that it is $NP$-hard to approximate the weighted greedoid maximization within $2^{n^{O(1)}}$ where $n$ is the size of the domain of the greedoid.   A preliminary version ``The Complexity of Maximum Matroid-Greedoid Intersection'' appeared in Proc. FCT 2001, LNCS 2138, pp. 535--539, Springer-Verlag 2001.<|reference_end|>
@article{mielikäinen2004the,
    title={The Complexity of Maximum Matroid-Greedoid Intersection and Weighted
  Greedoid Maximization},
    author={Taneli Mielik"ainen and Esko Ukkonen},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0405094},
    year={2004},
    number={Report C-2004-2, Department of Computer Science, University of
  Helsinki},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0405094},
    primaryClass={cs.DS}
}