Analyzing the Held-Karp TSP bound: A monotonicity property with application

DOI10.1016/0020-0190(90)90028-VzbMath0698.68050OpenAlexW2063836932MaRDI QIDQ912624

David P. Williamson, David B. Shmoys

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Information Processing Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-0190(90)90028-v

zbMATH Keywords

performance guaranteestraveling salesman problemlower boundsapproximation algorithms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Programming involving graphs or networks (90C35) Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25) Trees (05C05)

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