An improved upper bound for the TSP in cubic 3-edge-connected graphs

David Gamarnik, Moshe Lewenstein, Maxim Sviridenko

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)467-474
Number of pages8
JournalOperations Research Letters
Volume33
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2005

Keywords

  • Approximation algorithms
  • Graphs
  • Regular graphs
  • Travelling salesman problem

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