The complexity of the longest tour through points in the plane
Determine whether finding the longest tour through n points in the plane, with Euclidean distances, is NP-hard or solvable in polynomial time.
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| 4 | "computational-geometry", |
| 5 | "algorithms-complexity" |
| 6 | ], |
| 7 | "type": "proof", |
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| 11 | "cover": { |
| 12 | "motif": "points", |
| 13 | "n": 8 |
| 14 | }, |
| 15 | "source": { |
| 16 | "key": "topp", |
| 17 | "name": "The Open Problems Project", |
| 18 | "url": "https://topp.openproblem.net/p49", |
| 19 | "id": "49", |
| 20 | "curator": "Erik D. Demaine, Joseph S. B. Mitchell and Joseph O'Rourke", |
| 21 | "poser": "Alexander Barvinok; Sándor P. Fekete (NP-hardness conjecture)", |
| 22 | "status": "open", |
| 23 | "as_of": "2026-10-20", |
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| 27 | "approval": "first-time" |
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