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Fluctuations in the site disordered travelling salesman problem
David S Dean and David Lancaster
We extend a previous statistical mechanical treatment of the traveling salesman problem by defining a discrete "site disordered’’ problem in which fluctuations about saddle points can be computed. The results clarify the basis of our original treatment, and illuminate but do not resolve the difficulties of taking the zero temperature limit to obtain minimal path lengths.