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We introduce a novel operator to describe a random walk process on a simplicial complex. Walkers are allowed to wonder across simplices of various dimensions, bridging nodes to edges, and edges to triangles, via a nested organization that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-21 Diego Febbe , Duccio Fanelli , Timoteo Carletti

Random walks on expanders play a crucial role in Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms, derandomization, graph theory, and distributed computing. A desirable property is that they are rapidly mixing, which is equivalent to having a spectral…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Sam Olesker-Taylor , Thomas Sauerwald , John Sylvester

We develop a new approach for approximating large independent sets when the input graph is a one-sided spectral expander - that is, the uniform random walk matrix of the graph has its second eigenvalue bounded away from 1. Consequently, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Mitali Bafna , Jun-Ting Hsieh , Pravesh K. Kothari

This is the second in a series of articles devoted to showing that a typical covering map of large degree to a fixed, regular graph has its new adjacency eigenvalues within the bound conjectured by Alon for random regular graphs. The first…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Joel Friedman , David Kohler

In this paper, we introduce random walks with absorbing states on simplicial complexes. Given a simplicial complex of dimension $d$, a random walk with an absorbing state is defined which relates to the spectrum of the $k$-dimensional…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-21 Sayan Mukherjee , John Steenbergen

A measure on a locally compact group is called spread out if one of its convolution powers is not singular with respect to Haar measure. Using Markov chain theory, we conduct a detailed analysis of random walks on homogeneous spaces with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Roland Prohaska

The study of Markov chains on discrete spaces, such as digraphs, has captivated mathematicians in recent decades due to its interconnectedness with topology, geometry, dynamics, spectral theory, and differential equations. Furthermore,…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-12 André Gomes , Daniel Miranda , Renata Possobon

Several kinds of walks on complex networks are currently used to analyze search and navigation in different systems. Many analytical and computational results are known for random walks on such networks. Self-avoiding walks (SAWs) are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Carlos P. Herrero

Length-constrained expander decompositions are a new graph decomposition that has led to several recent breakthroughs in fast graph algorithms. Roughly, an $(h, s)$-length $\phi$-expander decomposition is a small collection of length…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Greg Bodwin , Bernhard Haeupler , D Ellis Hershkowitz , Zihan Tan

We consider a model of a random height function with long-range constraints on a discrete segment. This model was suggested by Benjamini, Yadin and Yehudayoff and is a generalization of simple random walk. The random function is uniformly…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Ron Peled , Yinon Spinka

In recent work on equiangular lines, Jiang, Tidor, Yuan, Zhang, and Zhao showed that a connected bounded degree graph has sublinear second eigenvalue multiplicity. More generally they show that there cannot be too many eigenvalues near the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Mikolaj Fraczyk , Ben Hayes , Madhu Sudan , Yufei Zhao

We present a perturbative approach to disordered systems in one spatial dimension that accesses the full range of phase disorder and clarifies the connection between localization and phase information. We consider a long chain of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-03-04 Adrian B. Culver , Pratik Sathe , Rahul Roy

Consider a random geometric 2-dimensional simplicial complex $X$ sampled as follows: first, sample $n$ vectors $\boldsymbol{u_1},\ldots,\boldsymbol{u_n}$ uniformly at random on $\mathbb{S}^{d-1}$; then, for each triple $i,j,k \in [n]$, add…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Siqi Liu , Sidhanth Mohanty , Tselil Schramm , Elizabeth Yang

In this paper, we derive the distribution of a two-dimensional (complex) random walk in which the angle of each step is restricted to a subset of the circle. This setting appears in various domains, such as in over-the-air computation in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Karl-Ludwig Besser

Hypergraphs provide a fundamental framework for representing complex systems involving interactions among three or more entities. As empirical hypergraphs grow in size, characterizing their structural properties becomes increasingly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Kazuki Nakajima , Masanao Kodakari , Masaki Aida

In this paper, we introduce hierarchical random walks at first. In this model, we use two types of random walkers, {global and local} walkers. The global walker chooses a local walker at every step, then the chosen local walker moves a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Jirô Akahori , Yusuke Ide , Tomoki Kato , Norio Konno , Shuhei Mano , Akihiro Narimatsu

There is a long history of establishing central limit theorems for Markov chains. Quantitative bounds for chains with a spectral gap were proved by Mann and refined later. Recently, rates of convergence for the total variation distance were…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-24 Rafael Chiclana , Yuval Peres

We define the Uniform Random Walk (URW) on a connected, locally finite graph as the weak limit of the uniform walk of length $n$ starting at a fixed vertex. When the limit exists, it is necessarily Markovian and is independent of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Miklos Abert , Adam Arras , Jaelin Kim

We consider a system of independent one-dimensional random walks in a common random environment under the condition that the random walks are transient with positive speed $v_P$. We give upper bounds on the quenched probability that at…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Jonathon Peterson

In 2020, F. Cesi introduced a random walk on the hyperoctahedral group $B_n$ and analysed its spectral gap when the allowed generators are transpositions and diagonal elements corresponding to singletons. In this paper we extend the allowed…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Gil Alon , Subhajit Ghosh