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2012 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
On the Integrality Gap of the Subtour LP for the 1,2-TSP
verfasst von : Jiawei Qian, Frans Schalekamp, David P. Williamson, Anke van Zuylen
Erschienen in: LATIN 2012: Theoretical Informatics
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In this paper, we study the integrality gap of the subtour LP relaxation for the traveling salesman problem in the special case when all edge costs are either 1 or 2. For the general case of symmetric costs that obey triangle inequality, a famous conjecture is that the integrality gap is 4/3. Little progress towards resolving this conjecture has been made in thirty years. We conjecture that when all edge costs
c
ij
∈ {1,2}, the integrality gap is 10/9. We show that this conjecture is true when the optimal subtour LP solution has a certain structure. Under a weaker assumption, which is an analog of a recent conjecture by Schalekamp, Williamson and van Zuylen, we show that the integrality gap is at most 7/6. When we do not make any assumptions on the structure of the optimal subtour LP solution, we can show that inegrality gap is at most 19/15 ≈ 1.267 < 4/3; this is the first bound on the integrality gap of the subtour LP strictly less than 4/3 known for an interesting special case of the TSP.