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    Mixing times for exclusion processes on hypergraphs

    Connor, S.B. and Pymar, Richard (2019) Mixing times for exclusion processes on hypergraphs. Electronic Journal of Probability 24 , p. 73. ISSN 1083-6489.

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    Abstract

    We introduce a natural extension of the exclusion process to hypergraphs and prove an upper bound for its mixing time. In particular we show the existence of a constant C such that for any connected, regular hypergraph G within some natural class, the ε-mixing time of the exclusion process on G with any feasible number of particles can be upper-bounded by C TEX(2,G) log(|V|/ε), where |V| is the number of vertices in G and TEX(2,G) is the 1/4-mixing time of the corresponding exclusion process with just two particles. Moreover we show this is optimal in the sense that there exist hypergraphs in the same class for which TEX(2,G) and the mixing time of just one particle are not comparable. The proofs involve an adaptation of the chameleon process, a technical tool invented by Morris (2006) and developed by Oliveira (2013) for studying the exclusion process on a graph.

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    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): mixing time, exclusion, interchange, random walk, hypergraph coupling
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
    Depositing User: Richard Pymar
    Date Deposited: 10 Jul 2019 13:11
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:46
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27960

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