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Optimization versus search. Recall the traveling salesman problem:TSPInput: A matrix of di...

Optimization versus search. Recall the traveling salesman problem:

TSP

Input: A matrix of distances; a budget b

Output: A tour which passes through all the cities and has length ≤ b, if such a tour exists.

The optimization version of this problem asks directly for the shortest tour.

TSP-OPT

Input: A matrix of distances

Output: The shortest tour which passes through all the cities.

Show that if TSP can be solved in polynomial time, then so can TSP-OPT.

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