Improved approximation algorithms for metric maximum ATSP and maximum 3-cycle cover problems

  • Authors:
  • Markus BläSer;L. Shankar Ram;Maxim Sviridenko

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science, Saarland University, Germany;Institut für Theoretische Informatik, ETH Zürich, Switzerland;IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, United States

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We consider an APX-hard variant (@D-Max-ATSP) and an APX-hard relaxation (Max-3-DCC) of the classical traveling salesman problem. We present a 3140-approximation algorithm for @D-Max-ATSP and a 34-approximation algorithm for Max-3-DCC with polynomial running time. The results are obtained via a new way of applying techniques for computing undirected cycle covers to directed problems.