Not Every GTSP Facet Induces an STSP Facet
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The graphical traveling salesman problem (GTSP) has been studied as a variant of the classical symmetric traveling salesman problem (STSP) suited particularly for sparse graphs. In addition, it can be viewed as a relaxation of the STSP and employed for solving the latter to optimality as originally proposed by Naddef and Rinaldi. There is a close natural connection between the two associated polyhedra. Until now, it was not known whether there are facets in TT-form of the GTSP polyhedron which are not facets of the STSP polytope as well. In this paper we give an affirmative answer to this question for n ≥ 9 and provide a general method for constructing such facets.
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