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An improved upper bound on the integrality ratio for the $s$-$t$-path TSP

Discrete Mathematics 2019-07-24 v2 Data Structures and Algorithms Combinatorics

Abstract

We give an improved analysis of the best-of-many Christofides algorithm with lonely edge deletion, which was proposed by Seb\H{o} and van Zuylen [2016]. This implies an improved upper bound on the integrality ratio of the standard LP relaxation for the ss-tt-path TSP.

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@article{arxiv.1808.10734,
  title  = {An improved upper bound on the integrality ratio for the $s$-$t$-path TSP},
  author = {Vera Traub and Jens Vygen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.10734},
  year   = {2019}
}