Abstract
A present trend in the study of theSymmetric Traveling Salesman Polytope (STSP(n)) is to use, as a relaxation of the polytope, thegraphical relaxation (GTSP(n)) rather than the traditionalmonotone relaxation which seems to have attained its limits. In this paper, we show the very close relationship between STSP(n) and GTSP(n). In particular, we prove that every non-trivial facet of STSP(n) is the intersection ofn + 1 facets of GTSP(n),n of which are defined by the degree inequalities. This fact permits us to define a standard form for the facet-defining inequalities for STSP(n), that we calltight triangular, and to devise a proof technique that can be used to show that many known facet-defining inequalities for GTSP(n) define also facets of STSP(n). In addition, we give conditions that permit to obtain facet-defining inequalities by composition of facet-defining inequalities for STSP(n) and general lifting theorems to derive facet-defining inequalities for STSP(n +k) from inequalities defining facets of STSP(n).
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