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On sensitivity of uniform mixing times

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Abstract

We show that the order of the L-mixing time of simple random walks on a sequence of uniformly bounded degree graphs of size n may increase by an optimal factor of Θ(loglogn) as a result of a bounded perturbation of the edge weights. This answers a question and a conjecture of Kozma.

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Keywords

sensitivity, mixing-time, sensitivity of mixing times, hitting times

Journal Title

Annales de l'institut Henri Poincare (B) Probability and Statistics

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Journal ISSN

0246-0203

Volume Title

54

Publisher

Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/L018896/1)
Financial support by the EPSRC grant EP/L018896/1.