scholarly journals The cover time of a biased random walk on Gn,p

Author(s):  
Colin Cooper ◽  
Alan Frieze ◽  
Samantha Petti
10.37236/8327 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Johansson

We consider a random walk process on graphs introduced by Orenshtein and Shinkar (2014). At any time, the random walk moves from its current position along a previously unvisited edge chosen uniformly at random, if such an edge exists. Otherwise, it walks along a previously visited edge chosen uniformly at random. For the random $r$-regular graph, with $r$ a constant odd integer, we show that this random walk process has asymptotic vertex and edge cover times $\frac{1}{r-2}n\log n$ and $\frac{r}{2(r-2)}n\log n$, respectively, generalizing a result of Cooper, Frieze and the author (2018) from $r = 3$ to any odd $r\geqslant 3$. The leading term of the asymptotic vertex cover time is now known for all fixed $r\geqslant 3$, with Berenbrink, Cooper and Friedetzky (2015) having shown that $G_r$ has vertex cover time asymptotic to $\frac{rn}{2}$ when $r\geqslant 4$ is even.


1992 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 330
Author(s):  
J. N. Boyd ◽  
P. N. Raychowdhury

2013 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. C. Gruber ◽  
S. D. Crossley ◽  
A. P. Smith

ABSTRACT Inflation pressure loss in tires degrades performance, raises rolling resistance, and reduces fuel economy. The incorporation of solid fillers, such as carbon black, at relatively high loadings in tire innerliners helps minimize these pressure losses by reducing innerliner permeability due to increases in average gas molecule diffusion path lengths (tortuosity), as well as reductions in diffusion pathway density (capacity). The effects of filler morphology and loading on diffusion path tortuosity can be explored by modeling biased random-walk diffusion through impermeable sphere-filled matrices. Modeled diffusion rate was found to decrease with increased filler loading, reduced filler sphere sizes, increased random-walk step sizes, and the aggregation of filler spheres. Initial correlations with limited empirical permeability measurements are used to validate the model approach.


1992 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 330-333
Author(s):  
J. N. Boyd ◽  
P. N. Raychowdhury

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (01) ◽  
pp. 177-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. S. Chong ◽  
Richard Cowan ◽  
Lars Holst

A simple asymmetric random walk on the integers is stopped when its range is of a given length. When and where is it stopped? Analogous questions can be stated for a Brownian motion. Such problems are studied using results for the classical ruin problem, yielding results for the cover time and the range, both for asymmetric random walks and Brownian motion with drift.


2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
TAL ORENSHTEIN ◽  
IGOR SHINKAR

We study a discrete time self-interacting random process on graphs, which we call greedy random walk. The walker is located initially at some vertex. As time evolves, each vertex maintains the set of adjacent edges touching it that have not yet been crossed by the walker. At each step, the walker, being at some vertex, picks an adjacent edge among the edges that have not traversed thus far according to some (deterministic or randomized) rule. If all the adjacent edges have already been traversed, then an adjacent edge is chosen uniformly at random. After picking an edge the walker jumps along it to the neighbouring vertex. We show that the expected edge cover time of the greedy random walk is linear in the number of edges for certain natural families of graphs. Examples of such graphs include the complete graph, even degree expanders of logarithmic girth, and the hypercube graph. We also show that GRW is transient in$\mathbb{Z}^d$for alld≥ 3.


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