Collisions Among Random Walks on a Graph
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Publication:3136609
DOI10.1137/0406029zbMath0776.60083OpenAlexW1964535518MaRDI QIDQ3136609
Peter M. Winkler, Don Coppersmith, Prasad Tetali
Publication date: 14 October 1993
Published in: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/0406029
Extremal problems in graph theory (05C35) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science (68R10)
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