Improving on Best-of-Many-Christofides for T-tours
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2020-11
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The T-tour problem is a natural generalization of TSP and Path TSP. Given a graph G=(V,E), edge cost c:E→R≥0, and an even cardinality set T⊆V, we want to compute a minimum-cost T-join connecting all vertices of G (and possibly containing parallel edges). In this paper we give an [Formula presented]-approximation for the T-tour problem and show that the integrality ratio of the standard LP relaxation is at most [Formula presented]. Despite much progress for the special case Path TSP, for general T-tours this is the first improvement on Sebő’s analysis of the Best-of-Many-Christofides algorithm (Sebő, 2013).
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48 (6)
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798 - 804
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Elsevier
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Traveling salesman problem; T-join; Approximation algorithm; Integrality gap
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09487 - Zenklusen, Rico / Zenklusen, Rico
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184622 - Toward Stronger Approximation Algorithms for Fundamental Network Design and Optimization Problems (SNF)