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arxiv: 1710.06286 · v1 · pith:H3I2332Anew · submitted 2017-10-17 · 🧮 math.CO

On the skeleton of the pyramidal tours polytope

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We consider the skeleton of the pyramidal tours polytope. Hamiltonian tour is called pyramidal if the salesperson starts in city $1$, then visits some cities in increasing order, reaches city $n$ and returns to city $1$, visiting the remaining cities in decreasing order. The polytope $PYR(n)$ is defined as the convex hull of characteristic vectors of all pyramidal tours in the complete graph $K_{n}$. The skeleton of the polytope $PYR(n)$ is the graph whose vertex set is the vertex set of $PYR(n)$ and edge set is the set of geometric edges or one-dimensional faces of $PYR(n)$. We describe the necessary and sufficient condition for the adjacency of vertices of the polytope $PYR(n)$. On this basis we developed an algorithm to check the vertex adjacency with a linear complexity. We establish that the diameter of $PYR(n)$ skeleton equals 2, and the asymptotically exact estimate of $PYR(n)$ skeleton's clique number is $\Theta(n^{2})$. It is known that this value characterizes the time complexity in a broad class of algorithms based on linear comparisons.

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