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In this paper, we show that for any independence system, the problem of finding a persistency partition of the ground set and that of finding a maximum weight independent set are polynomially equivalent.
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This research has been partially funded by the Greek Ministry of Education under the program Pythagoras.
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Magos, D., Mourtos, I. & Pitsoulis, L. Persistency and matroid intersection. Comput Manag Sci 6, 435–445 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10287-007-0064-x
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