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A PTAS for Travelling Salesman Problem with Neighbourhood...
Benyamin Ghaseminia, Mohammad R. Salavatipour · 2025-04-03 · via cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

We consider the Travelling Salesman Problem with Neighbourhoods (TSPN) on the Euclidean plane ($\mathbb{R}^2$) and present a Polynomial-Time Approximation Scheme (PTAS) when the neighbourhoods are parallel line segments with lengths between $[1, λ]$ for any constant value $λ\ge 1$. In TSPN (which generalizes classic TSP), each client represents a set (or neighbourhood) of points in a metric and the goal is to find a minimum cost TSP tour that visits at least one point from each client set. In the Euclidean setting, each neighbourhood is a region on the plane. TSPN is significantly more difficult than classic TSP even in the Euclidean setting, as it captures group TSP. A notable case of TSPN is when each neighbourhood is a line segment. Although there are PTASs for when neighbourhoods are fat objects (with limited overlap), TSPN over line segments is APX-hard even if all the line segments have unit length. For parallel (unit) line segments, the best approximation factor is $3\sqrt2$ from more than two decades ago [DM03]. The PTAS we present in this paper settles the approximability of this case of the problem. Our algorithm finds a $(1 + ε)$-factor approximation for an instance of the problem for $n$ segments with lengths in $ [1,λ] $ in time $ n^{O(λ/ε^3)} $.