A historical note on the 3/2-approximation algorithm for the metric traveling salesman problem. van Bevern, R. & Slugina, V. A. Historia Mathematica, 53:118-127, 2020.
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Slides doi abstract bibtex 9 downloads One of the most fundamental results in combinatorial optimization is the polynomial-time 3/2-approximation algorithm for the metric traveling salesman problem. It was presented by Christofides in 1976 and is well known as "the Christofides algorithm". Recently, some authors started calling it "Christofides-Serdyukov algorithm", pointing out that the same result was published independently in the USSR in 1978. We provide some historic background on Serdyukov's findings and a translation of his article.
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abstract = {One of the most fundamental results in combinatorial
optimization is the polynomial-time
3/2-approximation algorithm for the metric traveling
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that the same result was published independently in
the USSR in 1978. We provide some historic
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