Effect of increasing the energy gap between the two lowest energy states on the mixing time of the Metropolis algorithm

DOI10.1016/J.IPL.2012.08.012MaRDI QIDQ456181zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Apurv Nakade, Somenath Biswas

Publication date 23 October 2012

Published in Information Processing Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipl.2012.08.012

zbMATH Keywords

Metropolis algorithmrandomized algorithmsprotein foldingMarkov chain mixing time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Biochemistry, molecular biology (92C40) Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08) Algorithms in computer science (68W99)

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