Cover and Hitting Times of Hyperbolic Random Graphs

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Hauptverfasser: Kiwi, Marcos, Schepers, Markus, Sylvester, John
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Veröffentlicht: 2022
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author Kiwi, Marcos
Schepers, Markus
Sylvester, John
author_facet Kiwi, Marcos
Schepers, Markus
Sylvester, John
contents We study random walks on the giant component of Hyperbolic Random Graphs (HRGs), in the regime when the degree distribution obeys a power law with exponent in the range $(2,3)$. In particular, we first focus on the expected time for a random walk to hit a given vertex or visit, i.e. cover, all vertices. We show that, a.a.s. (with respect to the HRG), and up to multiplicative constants: the cover time is $n(\log n)^2$, the maximum hitting time is $n\log n$, and the average hitting time is $n$. We then determine the expected time to commute between two given vertices a.a.s., up to a small factor polylogarithmic in $n$, and under some mild hypothesis on the pair of vertices involved. Our results are proved by controlling effective resistances using the energy dissipated by carefully designed network flows associated to a tiling of the hyperbolic plane, on which we overlay a forest-like structure.
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spellingShingle Cover and Hitting Times of Hyperbolic Random Graphs
Kiwi, Marcos
Schepers, Markus
Sylvester, John
Probability
Discrete Mathematics
Combinatorics
05C80, 60J10, 60G40
We study random walks on the giant component of Hyperbolic Random Graphs (HRGs), in the regime when the degree distribution obeys a power law with exponent in the range $(2,3)$. In particular, we first focus on the expected time for a random walk to hit a given vertex or visit, i.e. cover, all vertices. We show that, a.a.s. (with respect to the HRG), and up to multiplicative constants: the cover time is $n(\log n)^2$, the maximum hitting time is $n\log n$, and the average hitting time is $n$. We then determine the expected time to commute between two given vertices a.a.s., up to a small factor polylogarithmic in $n$, and under some mild hypothesis on the pair of vertices involved. Our results are proved by controlling effective resistances using the energy dissipated by carefully designed network flows associated to a tiling of the hyperbolic plane, on which we overlay a forest-like structure.
title Cover and Hitting Times of Hyperbolic Random Graphs
topic Probability
Discrete Mathematics
Combinatorics
05C80, 60J10, 60G40
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.06956