Tree-based decompositions of graphs on surfaces and applications to the traveling salesman problem

The tree-width and branch-width of a graph are two well-studied examples of parameters that measure how well a given graph can be decomposed into a tree structure. In this thesis we give several results and applications concerning these concepts, in particular if the graph is embedded on a surface....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Inkmann, Torsten
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2008
Subjects:
TSP
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22583