An O(log n/ log log n)-approximation algorithm for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem

  • Authors:
  • Arash Asadpour;Michel X. Goemans;Aleksander Mądry;Shayan Oveis Gharan;Amin Saberi

  • Affiliations:
  • Stanford University;MIT;MIT;Stanford University;Stanford University

  • Venue:
  • SODA '10 Proceedings of the twenty-first annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We consider the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman problem for costs satisfying the triangle inequality. We derive a randomized algorithm which delivers a solution within a factor O(log n/ log log n) of the optimum with high probability.