On the Metric s-t Path Traveling Salesman Problem
On the Metric s-t Path Traveling Salesman Problem
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关于度量 s-t 路径旅行商问题
DOI:
10.1137/14096712x
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发表时间:
2014
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Zhihan Gao
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作者:
Zhihan Gao
We study the metric $s$--$t$ path traveling salesman problem (TSP). An, Kleinberg, and Shmoys [Proceedings of the 44th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2012, pp. 875--886] improved on the long-standing $\frac{5}{3}$-approximation factor and presented an algorithm that achieves an approximation factor of $\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2}\approx1.61803$. Later, Sebo [Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, 2013, pp. 362--374] further improved the approximation factor to $\frac{8}{5}$. We present a simple, self-contained analysis that unifies both results; our main contribution is a unified correction vector. Additionally, we compare two different linear programming (LP) relaxations of the $s$--$t$ path TSP, namely, the path version of the Held--Karp LP relaxation for the TSP and a weaker LP relaxation, and we show that both LPs have the same (fractional) optimal value. Also, we show that the minimum cost of integral solutions of the two LPs are within a factor of $...