A $(5/3+ε)$-Approximation for Tricolored Non-crossing Euclidean TSP

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Hauptverfasser: Baligács, Júlia, Disser, Yann, Feldmann, Andreas Emil, Zych-Pawlewicz, Anna
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author Baligács, Júlia
Disser, Yann
Feldmann, Andreas Emil
Zych-Pawlewicz, Anna
author_facet Baligács, Júlia
Disser, Yann
Feldmann, Andreas Emil
Zych-Pawlewicz, Anna
contents In the Tricolored Euclidean Traveling Salesperson problem, we are given~$k=3$ sets of points in the plane and are looking for disjoint tours, each covering one of the sets. Arora (1998) famously gave a PTAS based on ``patching'' for the case $k=1$ and, recently, Dross et al.~(2023) generalized this result to~$k=2$. Our contribution is a $(5/3+ε)$-approximation algorithm for~$k=3$ that further generalizes Arora's approach. It is believed that patching is generally no longer possible for more than two tours. We circumvent this issue by either applying a conditional patching scheme for three tours or using an alternative approach based on a weighted solution for $k=2$.
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spellingShingle A $(5/3+ε)$-Approximation for Tricolored Non-crossing Euclidean TSP
Baligács, Júlia
Disser, Yann
Feldmann, Andreas Emil
Zych-Pawlewicz, Anna
Data Structures and Algorithms
In the Tricolored Euclidean Traveling Salesperson problem, we are given~$k=3$ sets of points in the plane and are looking for disjoint tours, each covering one of the sets. Arora (1998) famously gave a PTAS based on ``patching'' for the case $k=1$ and, recently, Dross et al.~(2023) generalized this result to~$k=2$. Our contribution is a $(5/3+ε)$-approximation algorithm for~$k=3$ that further generalizes Arora's approach. It is believed that patching is generally no longer possible for more than two tours. We circumvent this issue by either applying a conditional patching scheme for three tours or using an alternative approach based on a weighted solution for $k=2$.
title A $(5/3+ε)$-Approximation for Tricolored Non-crossing Euclidean TSP
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13938