Spectral gap and log-Sobolev constant for balanced matroids

Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 721-729

  Jerrum, Mark ^a   Son, Jung Bae ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONFORMAL MAPPING; MARKOV PROCESSES; NUMBER THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BALANCED MATROIDS; LOG-SOBOLEV CONSTANT; LOWER BOUNDS; SPECTRUM GAP; UPPER BOUNDS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 0036949740     PISSN: 02725428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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