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On the Held-Karp relaxation for the asymmetric and symmetric traveling salesman problems (English)
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28 October 2004
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The paper interrelates the approximabilities of the metric STSP (Symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem) and the metric ATSP (Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem) via the Held-Karp linear programming relaxation of the metric STSP, for which an integrality gap of \(4/3\) was conjectured. Using a new characterization of the integrality gap for general linear objective functions over polyhedra together with the definition of ultra-fundamental, hard-to-round STSP extreme points, it is shown that a slight strengthening of the Held-Karp conjecture would imply also a tight \(4/3\) integrality gap for the metric ATSP.
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ATSP
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STSP
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Held-Karp relaxation
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integrality gap
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approximation
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