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Towards random uniform sampling of bipartite graphs with given degree sequence

Combinatorics 2021-01-01 v4

Abstract

In this paper we consider a simple Markov chain for bipartite graphs with given degree sequence on nn vertices. We show that the mixing time of this Markov chain is bounded above by a polynomial in nn in case of {\em semi-regular} degree sequence. The novelty of our approach lays in the construction of the canonical paths in Sinclair's method.

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@article{arxiv.1004.2612,
  title  = {Towards random uniform sampling of bipartite graphs with given degree sequence},
  author = {Péter L. Erdös and Istán Miklós and Lajos Soukup},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.2612},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

47 pages, submitted for publication. In this version we explain explicitly our main contribution and corrected a serious flaw in the cycle decomposition

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