An improved upper bound for the TSP in cubic 3-edge-connected graphs
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چکیده
We consider the travelling salesman problem (TSP) problem on (the metric completion of) 3-edge-connected cubic graphs. These graphs are interesting because of the connection between their optimal solutions and the subtour elimination LP relaxation. Our main result is an approximation algorithm better than the 3/2-approximation algorithm for TSP in general. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Oper. Res. Lett.
دوره 33 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005