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3. Prove that the stationary probability <strong>of</strong> the random walk is uniform.<br />

Is there a better word than unifrom?<br />

4. Give an upper bound on the diameter <strong>of</strong> the network.<br />

In order to use a random walk to generate the graphs uniformly at random, the random<br />

walk must rapidly converge to the stationary probability. Proving this is beyond the<br />

material in this book.<br />

Exercise 5.18 What is the mixing time for<br />

1. Two cliques connected by a single edge?<br />

2. A graph consisting <strong>of</strong> an n vertex clique plus one additional vertex connected to one<br />

vertex in the clique.<br />

Exercise 5.19 What is the mixing time for<br />

1. G(n, p) with p = log n<br />

n ?<br />

2. A circle with n vertices where at each vertex an edge has been added to another<br />

vertex chosen at random. On average each vertex will have degree four, two circle<br />

edges, and an edge from that vertex to a vertex chosen at random, and possible some<br />

edges that are the ends <strong>of</strong> the random edges from other vertices.<br />

Exercise 5.20 Show that for the n×n×· · ·×n grid in d space, the normalized conductance<br />

is Ω(1/dn). Hint: The argument is a generalization <strong>of</strong> the argument in Exercise 5.4.<br />

Argue that for any subset S containing at most 1/2 the grid points, for at least 1/2 the<br />

grid points in S, among the d coordinate lines through the point, at least one intersects ¯S.<br />

Exercise 5.21<br />

1. What is the set <strong>of</strong> possible harmonic functions on a connected graph if there are only<br />

interior vertices and no boundary vertices that supply the boundary condition?<br />

2. Let q x be the stationary probability <strong>of</strong> vertex x in a random walk on an undirected<br />

graph where all edges at a vertex are equally likely and let d x be the degree <strong>of</strong> vertex<br />

x. Show that qx<br />

d x<br />

is a harmonic function.<br />

3. If there are multiple harmonic functions when there are no boundary conditions, why<br />

is the stationary probability <strong>of</strong> a random walk on an undirected graph unique?<br />

4. What is the stationary probability <strong>of</strong> a random walk on an undirected graph?<br />

Exercise 5.22 In Section ?? we associate a graph and edge probabilities with an electric<br />

network such that voltages and currents in the electrical network corresponded to properties<br />

<strong>of</strong> random walks on the graph. Can we go in the reverse order and construct the equivalent<br />

electrical network from a graph with edge probabilities?<br />

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