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On the exact number of possibilities for cutting and reconnecting the tour of a traveling salesman with Lin-k-Opts

Guenther Stattenberger, Markus Dankesreiter, Florian Baumgartner, Johannes J. Schneider

physics.comp-pharXiv:physics/0608269

Abstract

When trying to find approximate solutions for the Traveling Salesman Problem with heuristic optimization algorithms, small moves called Lin-k-Opts are often used. In our paper, we provide exact formulas for the numbers of possible tours into which a randomly chosen tour can be changed with a Lin-k-Opt.

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