Energy of Convex Sets, Shortest Paths, and Resistance

نویسنده

  • László Lovász
چکیده

Let us assign independent, exponentially distributed random edge lengths to the edges of an undirected graph. Lyons, Pemantle and Peres [11] proved that the expected length of the shortest path between two given nodes is bounded from below by the resistance between these nodes, where the resistance of an edge is the expectation of its length. They remarked that instead of exponentially distributed variables, one could consider random variables with a log-concave tail. We generalize this result in two directions. First, we note that the variables don’t have to be independent: it suffices to assume that their joint distribution is log-concave. Second, the inequality can be formulated as follows: the expected length of a shortest path between two given nodes is the expected optimum of a stochastic linear program over a flow polytope, while the resistance is the minimum of a convex quadratic function over this polytope. We show that the inequality between these quantities holds true for an arbitrary polytope provided its blocker has 0-1 vertices.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A

دوره 94  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2001