@InProceedings{kawarabayashi_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2020.35, author = {Kawarabayashi, Ken-ichi and Khoury, Seri and Schild, Aaron and Schwartzman, Gregory}, title = {{Improved Distributed Approximations for Maximum Independent Set}}, booktitle = {34th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2020)}, pages = {35:1--35:16}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-168-9}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2020}, volume = {179}, editor = {Attiya, Hagit}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2020.35}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-131135}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2020.35}, annote = {Keywords: Distributed graph algorithms, Approximation algorithms, Lower bounds} }