subtour

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English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ tour.

Noun

subtour (plural subtours)

  1. (graph theory) A tour that makes up part of a larger tour.
    • 2015, Ulrich Pferschy, Rostislav Stanek, “Generating subtour elimination constraints for the TSP from pure integer solutions”, in arXiv:
      The resulting problem is solved to integer optimality, violated constraints (which are trivial to find) are added and the process is repeated until a feasible solution is found. In order to speed up the algorithm we pursue several attempts to find as many relevant subtours as possible.

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