# Graph-TSP from Steiner Cycles

@article{Iwata2014GraphTSPFS,
title={Graph-TSP from Steiner Cycles},
author={Satoru Iwata and Alantha Newman and Ramamoorthi Ravi},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2014},
volume={abs/1407.2844}
}
• Published 25 June 2014
• Mathematics
• ArXiv
We present an approach for the traveling salesman problem with graph metric based on Steiner cycles. A Steiner cycle is a cycle that is required to contain some specified subset of vertices. For a graph $$G$$, if we can find a spanning tree $$T$$ and a simple cycle that contains the vertices with odd-degree in $$T$$, then we show how to combine the classic “double spanning tree” algorithm with Christofides’ algorithm to obtain a TSP tour of length at most $$\frac{4n}{3}$$. We use this approach…
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