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The travelling salesman problem in bounded degree graphs

Björklund, Andreas LU ; Husfeldt, Thore LU ; Kaski, Petteri and Koivisto, Mikko (2008) 35th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming 5125. p.198-209
Abstract
We show that the travelling salesman problem in bounded-degree graphs can be solved in tune O((2 - epsilon)(n)), where epsilon > 0 depends only on the degree bound but not on the number of cities, n. The algorithm is a variant of the classical dynamic programming solution due to Bellman, and, independently; Held and Karp. In the case of bounded integer weights on the edges, we also present a polynomial-space algorithm with running tune O((2 - epsilon)(n)) on bounded-degree graphs.
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Automata, Languages and Programming, part 1, Proceedings/Lecture Notes in Computer Science
volume
5125
pages
198 - 209
publisher
Springer
conference name
35th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming
conference location
Reykjavik, Iceland
conference dates
2008-07-07 - 2008-07-11
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  • wos:000258073400017
  • scopus:49049114076
ISSN
1611-3349
0302-9743
ISBN
978-3-540-70574-1
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-70575-8_17
project
Exact algorithms
language
English
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  author       = {{Björklund, Andreas and Husfeldt, Thore and Kaski, Petteri and Koivisto, Mikko}},
  booktitle    = {{Automata, Languages and Programming, part 1, Proceedings/Lecture Notes in Computer Science}},
  isbn         = {{978-3-540-70574-1}},
  issn         = {{1611-3349}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{198--209}},
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  title        = {{The travelling salesman problem in bounded degree graphs}},
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  doi          = {{10.1007/978-3-540-70575-8_17}},
  volume       = {{5125}},
  year         = {{2008}},
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