Shorter tours by nicer ears: 7/5-approximation for the graph-TSP, 3/2 for the path version, and 4/3 for two-edge-connected subgraphs
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Publication:484552
DOI10.1007/S00493-014-2960-3zbMATH Open1340.90201arXiv1201.1870OpenAlexW1999799345MaRDI QIDQ484552FDOQ484552
Authors: András Sebö, Jens Vygen 
Publication date: 7 January 2015
Published in: Combinatorica (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We prove new results for approximating the graphic TSP and some related problems. We obtain polynomial-time algorithms with improved approximation guarantees. For the graphic TSP itself, we improve the approximation ratio to 7/5. For a generalization, the connected--join problem, we obtain the first nontrivial approximation algorithm, with ratio 3/2. This contains the graphic --path-TSP as a special case. Our improved approximation guarantee for finding a smallest 2-edge-connected spanning subgraph is 4/3. The key new ingredient of all our algorithms is a special kind of ear-decomposition optimized using forest representations of hypergraphs. The same methods also provide the lower bounds (arising from LP relaxations) that we use to deduce the approximation ratios.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1870
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