The Glauber dynamics for edge-colorings of trees

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Abstract: Let T be a tree on n vertices and with maximum degree Delta. We show that for kgeqDelta+1 the Glauber dynamics for k-edge-colourings of T mixes in polynomial time in n. The bound on the number of colours is best possible as the chain is not even ergodic for kleqDelta. Our proof uses a recursive decomposition of the tree into subtrees; we bound the relaxation time of the original tree in terms of the relaxation time of its subtrees using block dynamics and chain comparison techniques. Of independent interest, we also introduce a monotonicity result for Glauber dynamics that simplifies our proof.



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