| Article ID: | iaor20102941 |
| Volume: | 37 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 83 |
| End Page Number: | 84 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2009 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Manthey Bodo, Engels Christian |
We show that the 2-opt heuristic for the traveling salesman problem achieves an expected approximation ratio of roughly