Mixing times of lozenge tiling and card shuffling Markov chains

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 274-325

  Wilson, David Bruce ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Card shuffling; Cutoff phenomenon; Exclusion process; Lattice path; Linear extension; Lozenge tiling; Mixing time; Random walk

Indexed keywords

EID: 2542428916     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: 10505164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1075828054     Document Type: Article

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