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A sharp analysis of the mixing time for random walk on rooted trees

Combinatorics 2009-08-11 v1 Probability

Abstract

We define an analog of Plancherel measure for the set of rooted unlabeled trees on n vertices, and a Markov chain which has this measure as its stationary distribution. Using the combinatorics of commutation relations, we show that order n^2 steps are necessary and suffice for convergence to the stationary distribution.

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@article{arxiv.0908.1141,
  title  = {A sharp analysis of the mixing time for random walk on rooted trees},
  author = {Jason Fulman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.1141},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages