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Simple cubic graphs with no short traveling salesman tour

Discrete Mathematics 2018-01-01 v1

Abstract

Let tsp(G)tsp(G) denote the length of a shortest travelling salesman tour in a graph GG. We prove that for any ε>0\varepsilon>0, there exists a simple 22-connected planar cubic graph G1G_1 such that tsp(G1)(1.25ε)V(G1)tsp(G_1)\ge (1.25-\varepsilon)\cdot|V(G_1)|, a simple 22-connected bipartite cubic graph G2G_2 such that tsp(G2)(1.2ε)V(G2)tsp(G_2)\ge (1.2-\varepsilon)\cdot|V(G_2)|, and a simple 33-connected cubic graph G3G_3 such that tsp(G3)(1.125ε)V(G3)tsp(G_3)\ge (1.125-\varepsilon)\cdot|V(G_3)|.

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@article{arxiv.1712.10167,
  title  = {Simple cubic graphs with no short traveling salesman tour},
  author = {Robert Lukoťka and Ján Mazák},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.10167},
  year   = {2018}
}