Abstract
Operator inequalities with a geometric flavour have been successful in studying mixing of random walks and quantum mechanics. We suggest a new way to extract such inequalities using the octopus inequality of Caputo, Liggett and Richthammer.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2672-2685 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Annales de l'institut Henri Poincare (B) Probability and Statistics |
Volume | 56 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We wish to thank Nick Crawford for noting the application to the Hamming graph. We thank Jonathan Hermon for many interesting discussions, and for Lemma 4. GK is supported by the Israel Science Foundation, by the Jesselson Foundation and by Paul and Tina Gardner.
Publisher Copyright:
© Association des Publications de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, 2020.
Keywords
- Mixing times
- Random walk on the symmetric group
- The interchange process
- The octopus inequality
- The quantum Heisenberg ferromagnet
- The stirring process