The Klee–Minty random edge chain moves with linear speed

  • Authors:
  • József Balogh;Robin Pemantle

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, Illinois;Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, 209 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • Venue:
  • Random Structures & Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

An infinite sequence of 0's and 1's evolves by flipping each 1 to a 0 exponentially at rate 1. When a 1 flips, all bits to its right also flip. Starting from any configuration with finitely many 1's to the left of the origin, we show that the leftmost 1 moves right with bounded speed. Upper and lower bounds are given on the speed. A consequence is that a lower bound for the run time of the random-edge simplex algorithm on a Klee–Minty cube is improved so as to be quadratic, in agreement with the upper bound. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2007