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Directed random walks on polytopes with few facets

Discrete Mathematics 2017-05-30 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Let PP be a simple polytope with nd=2n-d = 2, where dd is the dimension and nn is the number of facets. The graph of such a polytope is also called a grid. It is known that the directed random walk along the edges of PP terminates after O(log2n)O(\log^2 n) steps, if the edges are oriented in a (pseudo-)linear fashion. We prove that the same bound holds for the more general unique sink orientations.

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@article{arxiv.1705.10243,
  title  = {Directed random walks on polytopes with few facets},
  author = {Malte Milatz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.10243},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Full version. An extended abstract has been accepted at Eurocomb 2017

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