Improved Approximations for Cubic and Cubic Bipartite TSP
Abstract
We show improved approximation guarantees for the traveling salesman problem on cubic graphs, and cubic bipartite graphs. For cubic bipartite graphs with n nodes, we improve on recent results of Karp and Ravi (2014) by giving a simple "local improvement" algorithm that finds a tour of length at most 5/4 n - 2. For 2-connected cubic graphs, we show that the techniques of Moemke and Svensson (2011) can be combined with the techniques of Correa, Larre and Soto (2012), to obtain a tour of length at most (4/3-1/8754)n.
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