A Linear-Time Approximation Scheme for TSP in Undirected Planar Graphs with Edge-Weights

  • Authors:
  • Philip N. Klein

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We give an algorithm requiring $O(c^{1/\epsilon^2}n)$ time to find an $\epsilon$-optimal traveling salesman tour in the shortest-path metric defined by an undirected planar graph with nonnegative edge-lengths. For the case of all lengths equal to 1, the time required is $O(c^{1/\epsilon} n)$.