In the path version of the Travelling Salesman Problem (Path-TSP), a salesman islooking for the shortest Hamiltonian path through a set ofncities. The salesman hasto start his journey at a given citys, visit every city exactly once, and finally end histrip at another given cityt.In this paper we identify a new polynomially solvable case of the Path-TSP wherethe distance matrix of the cities is a so-called Demidenko matrix. We identify a numberof crucial combinatorial properties of the optimal solution, and we design a dynamicprogram with time complexityO(n6)
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 18 |
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Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2020 |
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- Information, Communication & Computing
- Basic - Fundamental (Grundlagenforschung)