@InProceedings{brodowsky_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2021.18, author = {Brodowsky, Ulrich A. and Hougardy, Stefan}, title = {{The Approximation Ratio of the 2-Opt Heuristic for the Euclidean Traveling Salesman Problem}}, booktitle = {38th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2021)}, pages = {18:1--18:15}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-180-1}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2021}, volume = {187}, editor = {Bl\"{a}ser, Markus and Monmege, Benjamin}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2021.18}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-136634}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2021.18}, annote = {Keywords: traveling salesman problem, metric TSP, Euclidean TSP, 2-Opt, approximation algorithm} }