In the m-peripatetic traveling salesman problem (m-PSP), given an n-vertex complete undirected edge-weighted graph, it is required to find m edge disjoint Hamiltonian cycles of minimum total weight. The problem was introduced by Krarup (1974) and has network design and scheduling applications. It is known that 2-PSP is NP-hard even in the metric case and does not admit any constant-factor approximation in the general case. Baburin, Gimadi, and Korkishko (2004) designed a (9/4∈+∈ε)-approximation algorithm for the metric case of 2-PSP, based on solving the traveling salesman problem. In this paper we present an improved 2-approximation algorithm with running time O(n 2logn) for the metric 2-PSP. Our algorithm exploits the fact that the problem of finding two edge disjoint spanning trees of minimum total weight is polynomially solvable. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Ageev, A. A., & Pyatkin, A. V. (2008). A 2-approximation algorithm for the metric 2-peripatetic salesman problem. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4927 LNCS, pp. 103–115). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77918-6_9
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