A positive semidefinite approximation of the symmetric traveling salesman polytope

DOI10.1007/S00454-007-1324-9MaRDI QIDQ2385145zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ellen Veomett

Publication date 11 October 2007

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610193

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation by convex sets (52A27) Symmetry properties of polytopes (52B15)

Abstract: For a convex body B in a vector space V, we construct its approximation P_k, k=1, 2, . . . using an intersection of a cone of positive semidefinite quadratic forms with an affine subspace. We show that P_k is contained in B for each k. When B is the Symmetric Traveling Salesman Polytope on n cities T_n, we show that the scaling of P_k by n/k+ O(1/n) contains T_n for k no more than n/2. Membership for P_k is computable in time polynomial in n (of degree linear in k). We discuss facets of T_n that lie on the boundary of P_k. We introduce a new measure on each facet defining inequality for T_n in terms of the eigenvalues of a quadratic form. Using these eigenvalues of facets, we show that the scaling of P_1 by n^(1/2) has all of the facets of T_n defined by the subtour elimination constraints either in its interior or lying on its boundary.

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