Random walks on the random graph

Collisions Among Random Walks on a Graph

17 There is one further consideration, which leads perhaps to the most intriguing conjecture of all. Let us put two tokens on a graph and let them take random walks, as before; but now suppose the schedule demon is clairvoyant|that is, he can see where each token will go, innnitely far into the future. The question is, with this advantage, can he now keep the tokens apart forever ? Of course we...

Restricted random walks on a graph

The problem of a restricted random walk on graphs which keeps track of the number of immediate reversal steps is considered by using a transfer matrix formulation. A closed-form expression is obtained for the generating function of the number of n-step walks with r reversal steps for walks on any graph. In the case of graphs of a uniform valence, we show that our result has a probabilistic mean...

Random Walks and Graph Homomorphisms

Graph homomorphisms through random walks

In this paper we introduce some general necessary conditions for the existence of graph homomorphisms, which hold in both directed and undirected cases. Our method is a combination of Diaconis and Saloff– Coste comparison technique for Markov chains and a generalization of Haemers interlacing theorem. As some applications, we obtain a necessary condition for the spanning subgraph problem, which...

Random Walks on Random Graphs

The aim of this article is to discuss some of the notions and applications of random walks on finite graphs, especially as they apply to random graphs. In this section we give some basic definitions, in Section 2 we review applications of random walks in computer science, and in Section 3 we focus on walks in random graphs. Given a graphG = (V,E), let dG(v) denote the degree of vertex v for all...