We consider the capacitated cycle covering problem: given an undirected, complete graph G with metric edge lengths and demands on the vertices, we want to cover the vertices with vertex-disjoint cycles, each serving a demand of at most one. The objective is to minimize a linear combination of the total length and the number of cycles. This problem is closely related to the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) and other cycle cover problems such as min-max cycle cover and bounded cycle cover. We show that a greedy algorithm followed by a post-processing step yields a [Formula Presented]-approximation for this problem by comparing the solution to a polymatroid relaxation. We also show that the analysis of our algorithm is tight and provide a [Formula Presented] lower bound for the relaxation.
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Traub, V., & Tröbst, T. (2020). A Fast (2 + 2/7)-Approximation Algorithm for Capacitated Cycle Covering. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 12125 LNCS, pp. 391–404). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45771-6_30
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