The asymmetric one-dimensional constrained Ising model: Rigorous results

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 107, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 945-975

  Aldous, David ^a   Diaconis, Persi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained Ising model; Coupling; Exponential martingale; Poincar inequality; Relaxation time; Spectral gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036249368     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015170205728     Document Type: Article

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