Note: A note on the relationship between the graphical traveling salesman polyhedron, the Symmetric Traveling Salesman Polytope, and the metric cone

Authors:
Dirk Oliver Theis
Affiliations:
Service de Géométrie Combinatoire et Théorie des Groupes, Département de Mathématique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Venue:
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In this short communication, we observe that the Graphical Traveling Salesman Polyhedron is the intersection of the positive orthant with the Minkowski sum of the Symmetric Traveling Salesman Polytope and the polar of the metric cone. This follows almost trivially from known facts. There are nonetheless two reasons why we find this observation worth communicating: It is very surprising; it helps us understand the relationship between these two important families of polyhedra.