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View SchemaOn the exact number of possibilities for cutting and reconnecting the tour of a traveling salesman with Lin-$k$-Opts
| Authors | Guenther Stattenberger, Markus Dankesreiter, Florian Baumgartner, Johannes J. Schneider |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0608269 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0608269 |
Abstract
When trying to find approximate solutions for the Traveling Salesman Problem with heuristic optimization algorithms, small moves called Lin-$k$-Opts are often used. In our paper, we provide exact formulas for the numbers of possible tours into which a randomly chosen tour can be changed with a Lin-$k$-Opt.
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