The Traveling Salesman Problem in Circulant Weighted Graphs With Two Stripes
Author(s) -
Federico Greco,
Ivan Gerace
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
electronic notes in theoretical computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.242
H-Index - 60
ISSN - 1571-0661
DOI - 10.1016/j.entcs.2006.07.032
Subject(s) - hamiltonian path , circulant matrix , travelling salesman problem , upper and lower bounds , mathematics , combinatorics , hamiltonian (control theory) , constructive , circulant graph , discrete mathematics , hamiltonian path problem , bottleneck traveling salesman problem , graph theory , graph , mathematical optimization , computer science , line graph , mathematical analysis , process (computing) , operating system , voltage graph
The Symmetric Circulant Traveling Salesman Problem asks for the minimum cost of a Hamiltonian cycle in a circulant weighted undirected graph. The computational complexity of this problem is not known. Just a constructive upper bound, and a good lower bound have been determined.This paper provides a characterization of the two stripe case. Instances where the minimum cost of a Hamiltonian cycle is equal either to the upper bound, or to the lower bound are recognized. A new construction providing Hamiltonian cycles, whose cost is in many cases lower than the upper bound, is proposed for the remaining instances
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