Euclidean TSP in Narrow Strip

03/22/2020
by   Henk Alkema, et al.
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We investigate how the complexity of Euclidean TSP for point sets P inside the strip (-∞,+∞)× [0,δ] depends on the strip width δ. We obtain two main results. First, for the case where the points have distinct integer x-coordinates, we prove that a shortest bitonic tour (which can be computed in O(nlog^2 n) time using an existing algorithm) is guaranteed to be a shortest tour overall when δ≤ 2√(2), a bound which is best possible. Second, we present an algorithm that is fixed-parameter tractable with respect to δ. More precisely, our algorithm has running time 2^O(√(δ)) n^2 for sparse point sets, where each 1×δ rectangle inside the strip contains O(1) points. For random point sets, where the points are chosen uniformly at random from the rectangle [0,n]× [0,δ], it has an expected running time of 2^O(√(δ)) n^2 + O(n^3).

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