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标题：A Unified PTAS for Prize Collecting TSP and Steiner Tree Problem in Doubling Metrics
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作者：T-H. Hubert Chan ; Haotian Jiang ; Shaofeng H.-C. Jiang 等
期刊名称：LIPIcs : Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics
电子版ISSN：1868-8969
出版年度：2018
卷号：112
页码：1-13
DOI：10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.15
出版社：Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik
摘要：We present a unified (randomized) polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) for the prize collecting traveling salesman problem (PCTSP) and the prize collecting Steiner tree problem (PCSTP) in doubling metrics. Given a metric space and a penalty function on a subset of points known as terminals, a solution is a subgraph on points in the metric space, whose cost is the weight of its edges plus the penalty due to terminals not covered by the subgraph. Under our unified framework, the solution subgraph needs to be Eulerian for PCTSP, while it needs to be a tree for PCSTP. Before our work, even a QPTAS for the problems in doubling metrics is not known. Our unified PTAS is based on the previous dynamic programming frameworks proposed in [Talwar STOC 2004] and [Bartal, Gottlieb, Krauthgamer STOC 2012]. However, since it is unknown which part of the optimal cost is due to edge lengths and which part is due to penalties of uncovered terminals, we need to develop new techniques to apply previous divide-and-conquer strategies and sparse instance decompositions.
关键词：Doubling Dimension; Traveling Salesman Problem; Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme; Steiner Tree Problem; Prize Collecting