Fluctuations in the Site Disordered Traveling Salesman Problem
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
We extend a previous statistical mechanical treatment of the traveling salesman problem by defining a discrete "site disordered'' problem in which fluctuations about saddle points can be computed. The results clarify the basis of our original treatment, and illuminate but do not resolve the difficulties of taking the zero temperature limit to obtain minimal path lengths.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0708.3346,
title = {Fluctuations in the Site Disordered Traveling Salesman Problem},
author = {David S. Dean and David Lancaster},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.3346},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
17 pages, 3 eps figures, revtex