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The unbounded integrality gap of a semidefinite relaxation of the traveling salesman problem. (English) Zbl 1402.90114

##### MSC:
 90C22 Semidefinite programming 90C27 Combinatorial optimization 05C85 Graph algorithms (graph-theoretic aspects) 68W25 Approximation algorithms
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