Cutoff phenomenon for random walks on Kneser graphs

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Abstract: The cutoff phenomenon for an ergodic Markov chain describes a sharp transition in the convergence to its stationary distribution, over a negligible period of time, known as cutoff window. We study the cutoff phenomenon for simple random walks on Kneser graphs, which is a family of ergodic Markov chains. Given two integers n and k, the Kneser graph K(2n+k,n) is defined as the graph with vertex set being all subsets of 1,ldots,2n+k of size n and two vertices A and B being connected by an edge if AcapB=emptyset. We show that for any k=O(n), the random walk on K(2n+k,n) exhibits a cutoff at frac12log1+k/n(2n+k) with a window of size O(fracnk).









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