Approximation Results for Kinetic Variants of TSP
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چکیده
We study the approximation complexity of certain kinetic variants of the Traveling Salesman Problem where we consider instances in which each point moves with a xed constant speed in a xed direction. We prove the following results. 1. If the points all move with the same velocity, then there is a PTAS for the Kinetic TSP. 2. The Kinetic TSP cannot be approximated better than by a factor of two by a polynomial time algorithm unless P=NP, even if there are only two moving points in the instance. 3. The Kinetic TSP cannot be approximated better than by a factor of 2 ( p n) by a polynomial time algorithm unless P=NP, even if the maximum velocity is bounded. The n denotes the size of the input instance. Especially the last result is surprising in the light of existing polynomial time approximation schemes for the static version of the problem.
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