Four Questions on Birkhoff Polytope
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We ask several questions on the structure of the polytope of doubly stochastic n n matrices Pn, known as a Birkhoo polytope. We discuss the volume of Pn, the work of the simplex method, and the mixing of random walks Pn.
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