Mixing Time of Markov chain of the Knapsack Problem
Combinatorics
2018-03-20 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms
Probability
Abstract
To find the number of assignments of zeros and ones satisfying a specific Knapsack Problem is hard, so only approximations are envisageable. A Markov chain allowing uniform sampling of all possible solutions is given by Luby, Randall and Sinclair. In 2005, Morris and Sinclair, by using a flow argument, have shown that the mixing time of this Markov chain is , for any . By using a canonical path argument on the distributive lattice structure of the set of solutions, we obtain an improved bound, the mixing time is given as .
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@article{arxiv.1803.06914,
title = {Mixing Time of Markov chain of the Knapsack Problem},
author = {Koko K. Kayibi and S. Pirzada and Carrie Rutherford},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.06914},
year = {2018}
}
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9 pages, 2 figures