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A Hybrid Quantum-Classical Framework for the Travelling Salesman Problem via Adaptive DAG Decomposition and Grover-Based Sub-Tour Search

Amir Hameed Mir

Published Jan 1, 2026• 0 citations
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10.13140/rg.2.2.33375.62881

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The Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a classic combinatorial optimisation problem which is NP-hard in optimisation form and NP-complete as a decision problem. The standard question asks for the shortest tour that visits every city exactly once and returns to the origin. This paper studies a threshold-fraction variant, which we call the robust TSP, formulated as a promise problem: given a distance threshold KKK and a promised fraction ppp, decide whether at least a fraction ppp of all tours have total length at most KKK, or whether no such tour exists. We show that Grover's quantum search algorithm decides this problem using O(1/p)O(1/\sqrt{p})O(1/p​) oracle queries, independent of the number of cities NNN, with each query implemented by a quantum circuit of polynomial size in NNN. For any fixed robustness level ppp, the total runtime is therefore polynomial in NNN. Measured in oracle queries, the quantum algorithm offers a quadratic improvement in the dependence on 1/p1/p1/p over classical random sampling, which needs Θ(1/p)Θ(1/p)Θ(1/p) samples; because each quantum query is costly, however, it is faster in total running time only when ppp is very small (roughly below N−4N^{-4}N−4), where the number of queries is no longer constant. We describe the problem formulation, detail the oracle construction (edge-length loading, sequential quantum addition, and threshold comparison), and analyse the query complexity to achieve the required result.