Random walks on dynamic configuration models: a trichotomy

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Abstract: We consider a dynamic random graph on n vertices that is obtained by starting from a random graph generated according to the configuration model with a prescribed degree sequence and at each unit of time randomly rewiring a fraction alphan of the edges. We are interested in the mixing time of a random walk without backtracking on this dynamic random graph in the limit as noinfty, when alphan is chosen such that . In [1] we found that, under mild regularity conditions on the degree sequence, the mixing time is of order 1/sqrtalphan when . In the present paper we investigate what happens when . It turns out that the mixing time is of order logn, with the scaled mixing time exhibiting a one-sided cutoff when and a two-sided cutoff when . The occurrence of a one-sided cutoff is a rare phenomenon. In our setting it comes from a competition between the time scales of mixing on the static graph, as identified by Ben-Hamou and Salez [4], and the regeneration time of first stepping across a rewired edge.









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