Sensitivity of mixing times

DOI10.1214/ECP.V18-2765zbMATH Open1307.60051MaRDI QIDQ743063FDOQ743063

Authors Jian Ding, Yuval Peres 

Publication date 22 September 2014

Published in Electronic Communications in Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0244

zbMATH Keywords

sensitivityrandom walkmixing timebounded-degree graph

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Random walks on graphs (05C81)

Abstract: In this note, we demonstrate an instance of bounded-degree graphs of size $n$, for which the total variation mixing time for the random walk is decreased by a factor of $logn/loglogn$ if we multiply the edge-conductances by bounded factors in a certain way.

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