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In this paper, we are interested in the impact of communities on the mixing behavior of the non-backtracking random walk. We consider sequences of sparse random graphs of size $N$ generated according to a variant of the classical…
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We analyse the mixing profile of a random walk on a dynamic random permutation, focusing on the regime where the walk evolves much faster than the permutation. Two types of dynamics generated by random transpositions are considered: one…
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Let $G = (V,E)$ be a graph on $n$ vertices and let $m^*(G)$ denote the size of a maximum matching in $G$. We show that for any $\delta > 0$ and for any $1 \leq k \leq (1-\delta)m^*(G)$, the down-up walk on matchings of size $k$ in $G$ mixes…
An interval graph has interval count $\ell$ if it has an interval model, where among every $\ell+1$ intervals there are two that have the same length. Maximum Cut on interval graphs has been found to be NP-complete recently by Adhikary et…
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The sequence of the simple random walks on Hamming schemes $\{H(n, q)\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ has a cutoff phenomenon for each integer $q$ greater than or equal to $3$. In this paper, for the sequence of simple random walks on Hamming schemes…
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