The simple random walk and max-degree walk on a directed graph

  • Authors:
  • Ravi Montenegro

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854

  • Venue:
  • Random Structures & Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We bound total variation and L∞ mixing times, spectral gap and magnitudes of the complex valued eigenvalues of general (nonreversible nonlazy) Markov chains with a minor expansion property. The resulting bounds for the (nonlazy) simple and max-degree walks on a (directed) graph are of the optimal order. It follows that, within a factor of two or four, the worst case of each of these mixing time and eigenvalue quantities is a walk on a cycle with clockwise drift. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2009