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Adiabatic times for Markov chains and applications

Probability 2015-05-19 v1

Abstract

We state and prove a generalized adiabatic theorem for Markov chains and provide examples and applications related to Glauber dynamics of Ising model over Z^d/nZ^d. The theorems derived in this paper describe a type of adiabatic dynamics for l^1(R_+^n) norm preserving, time inhomogeneous Markov transformations, while quantum adiabatic theorems deal with l^2(C^n) norm preserving ones, i.e. gradually changing unitary dynamics in C^n.

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@article{arxiv.1008.1824,
  title  = {Adiabatic times for Markov chains and applications},
  author = {Kyle Bradford and Yevgeniy Kovchegov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.1824},
  year   = {2015}
}
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