UW Combinatorics Talk

UW Combinatorics Seminar

Title: Edge-Cover by Random Walk

Peter Winkler

Dartmouth College/Microsoft Research

November 2*, 4:00pm
Padelford C-401

refreshments at 3:30pm
Pre-Seminar at 2:30pm in Padelford C-401

ABSTRACT 

We show that the time for a random walk to cover all the edges of a graph with m edges is bounded by 2m^2; if all edges must be covered in both directions, 3m^2. These results generalize to graphs with edge-lengths (even with infinitely many vertices) and to Brownian motion. Joint work with Agelos Georgakopoulos. *This talk will be held in SMI 311.


Speaker's Contact Info: http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~pw/


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