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Kemeny's constant $\kappa(G)$ of a connected graph $G$ is a measure of the expected transit time for the random walk associated with $G$. In the current work, we consider the case when $G$ is a tree, and, in this setting, we provide lower…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-19 Lorenzo Ciardo , Geir Dahl , Steve Kirkland

Given a connected graph $G$, Kemeny's constant $\mathcal{K}({G})$ measures the average travel time for a random walk to reach a randomly selected vertex. It is known that when an edge is added to $G$, the value of Kemeny's constant may…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Stephen Kirkland , Yuqiao Li , John McAlister , Xiaohong Zhang

In the context of a random walk on an undirected graph, Kemeny's constant can measure the average travel time for a random walk between two randomly chosen vertices. We are interested in graphs that behave counter-intuitively in regard to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Sooyeong Kim

The Kemeny's constant $\kappa(G)$ of a connected undirected graph $G$ can be interpreted as the expected transit time between two randomly chosen vertices for the Markov chain associated with $G$. In certain cases, inserting a new edge into…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Lorenzo Ciardo

Graph products have been extensively applied to model complex networks with striking properties observed in real-world complex systems. In this paper, we study the hitting times for random walks on a class of graphs generated iteratively by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Mingzhe Zhu , Wanyue Xu , Wei Li , Zhongzhi Zhang , Haibin Kan

Kemeny constant, defined as the expected hitting time of random walks from a source node to a randomly chosen target node, is a fundamental metric in graph data management with many real-world applications. However, computing it exactly on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Cheng Li , Meihao Liao , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

For random walks on graph $\mathcal{G}$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, the mean hitting time $H_j$ from a vertex chosen from the stationary distribution to vertex $j$ measures the importance for $j$, while the Kemeny constant…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Haisong Xia , Wanyue Xu , Zuobai Zhang , Zhongzhi Zhang

Kemeny's constant for random walks on a graph is defined as the mean hitting time from one node to another selected randomly according to the stationary distribution. It has found numerous applications and attracted considerable research…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Haisong Xia , Zhongzhi Zhang

Kemeny's constant of a simple connected graph $G$ is the expected length of a random walk from $i$ to any given vertex $j \neq i$. We provide a simple method for computing Kemeny's constant for 1-separable via effective resistance methods…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Nolan Faught , Mark Kempton , Adam Knudson

For a random walk on a network, the mean first-passage time from a node $i$ to another node $j$ chosen stochastically according to the equilibrium distribution of Markov chain representing the random walk is called Kemeny constant, which is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-17 Zhongzhi Zhang , Yibin Sheng , Zhengyi Hu , Guanrong Chen

Kemeny's constant measures how fast a random walker moves around in a graph. Expressions for Kemeny's constant can be quite involved, and for this reason, many lines of research focus on graphs with structure that makes them amenable to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Jane Breen , Sooyeong Kim , Alexander Low Fung , Amy Mann , Andrei A. Parfeni , Giovanni Tedesco

In the present paper, we give the exact formula for the average hitting time (HT, as an abbreviation) of random walks from one vertex to any other vertex on the some weighted Cayley graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Yuuho Tanaka

We prove an explicit formula of hitting times in terms of enumerations of spanning trees for random walks on general connected graphs. We apply the formula to improve Lawler's bound of hitting times for general graphs, prove a sharp bound…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Hao Xu , Shing-Tung Yau

Kemeny's constant for a connected graph $G$ is the expected time for a random walk to reach a randomly-chosen vertex $u$, regardless of the choice of the initial vertex. We extend the definition of Kemeny's constant to non-backtracking…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-24 Jane Breen , Nolan Faught , Cory Glover , Mark Kempton , Adam Knudson , Alice Oveson

It is known that the average hitting times of simple random walks from any vertex to any other vertex in distance-regular graphs are determined by their intersection array. In this paper, we introduce a new graph classification called…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Yusaku Nishimura

In this paper we show that on bounded degree graphs and general trees, the cover time of the simple random walk is asymptotically equal to the product of the number of edges and the square of the expected supremum of the Gaussian free field…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Jian Ding

For any given vertices $u$ and $v$ in a graph, the hitting time of a random walk on a finite graph is the number of steps it takes for a random walk to reach vertex $v$ starting at vertex $u$. The expected value of the hitting time is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Aida Abiad , Yusaku Nishimura

We prove expectation and concentration results for the following random variables on an Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $\mathcal{G}\left(n,p\right)$ in the sparsely connected regime $\log n + \log\log \log n \leq np < n^{1/10}$: effective…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-22 John Sylvester

Let $\hat m_{ij}$ be the hitting (mean first passage) time from state $i$ to state $j$ in an $n$-state ergodic homogeneous Markov chain with transition matrix $T$. Let $\Gamma$ be the weighted digraph whose vertex set coincides with the set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Pavel Chebotarev , Elena Deza

Consider a random walk on a tree $G=(V,E)$. For $v,w \in V$, let the hitting time $H(v,w)$ denote the expected number of steps required for the random walk started at $v$ to reach $w$, and let $\pi_v = \mathrm{deg}(v)/2|E|$ denote the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Andrew Beveridge , Ben Bridenbaugh , Ari Holcombe Pomerance
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