| Article ID: | iaor19981483 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 83 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 301 |
| End Page Number: | 309 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1995 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Maffioli Francesco, Cowling Peter I. |
| Keywords: | graphs |
A new bound for the Symmetric Travelling Salesman Problem is proposed, using a matroid theoretic formulation of the problem. The resulting bound is shown to present a link between the well-studied 1-tree and 2-matching bounds. Its potential is investigated.