@InProceedings{haddadan_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2019.56, author = {Haddadan, Arash and Newman, Alantha}, title = {{Towards Improving Christofides Algorithm for Half-Integer TSP}}, booktitle = {27th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2019)}, pages = {56:1--56:12}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-124-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2019}, volume = {144}, editor = {Bender, Michael A. and Svensson, Ola and Herman, Grzegorz}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2019.56}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-111772}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2019.56}, annote = {Keywords: Traveling salesman problem, subtour elimination relaxation, integrality gap, gluing subtours} }