Week 5 - lecture 1

TOP TOPIC

Date: 01/09/22

5.1. Bounding Mixing Times via Hitting Times
5.2. Eigenvalues
5.3. Matthews' bounds for cover time

LECTURE presentation

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Homework

 

Reference

[1] Glasner, Shmuel.
Almost periodic sets and measures on the torus.
Israel J. Math. 32 (1979), no. 2-3, 161–-172.

[2] Berend, Daniel and Peres, Yuval.
Asymptotically dense dilations of sets on the circle.
J. London Math. Soc. (2) 47 (1993), no. 1, 1–-17.

[3] N. Alon and Y. Peres, "Uniform dilations'', Geometric and Functional Analysis, vol. 2, No. 1 (1992), 1–28.

[4] Nair, R. and Velani, S. L.
Glasner sets and polynomials in primes.
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998), no. 10, 2835–-2840.