human: Given a hyperedge-centered hypergraph: <hypergraph>, where the center hyperedge groups authors who co-authored the same paper.

Details of the hypergraph:
Center hyperedge (induced by source paper "On the hardness of approximating spanners"):
  Abstract: A k -spanner of a connected graph G=(V,E) is a subgraph G' consisting of all the vertices of V and a subset of the edges, with the additional property that the distance between any two vertices in G' is larger than the distance in G by no more than a factor of k . This paper concerns the hardness of finding spanners with a number of edges close to the optimum. It is proved that for every fixed k , approximating the spanner problem is at least as hard as approximating the set-cover problem.

Includes members:
  Member "A fast parametric maximum flow algorithm and applications":
    also connected through other hyperedges:
      - Hyperedge HE-1 (induced by source paper "A new approach to the maximum flow problem")
  Member "Geodesic Spanners on Polyhedral Surfaces":
    also connected through other hyperedges:
      (none)

Question: Please tell me which research area the co-authored paper (i.e., the source paper of the center hyperedge) belongs to. The 4 classes are: Computer science, Mathematics, Engineering, Economics, Psychology, Business. Directly output the class name.

gpt: Mathematics