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A new class of cutting planes for the symmetric travelling salesman problem

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A comprehensive class of cutting planes for the symmetric travelling salesman problem (TSP) is proposed which contains the known “comb inequalities”, the “path inequalities” and the “3-star constraints” as special cases. Its relation to the “clique tree inequalities” is discussed. The cutting planes are shown to be valid for a relaxed version of the TSP, the travelling salesman problem on a road network, and—under certain conditions—to define facets of the polyhedron associated with this problem.

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Fleischmann, B. A new class of cutting planes for the symmetric travelling salesman problem. Mathematical Programming 40, 225–246 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01580734

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