Random Walks on the Vertices of Transportation Polytopes with Constant Number of Sources

Mary Cryan, Martin Dyer, Haiko Müller, Leen Stougie

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Abstract

We consider the problem of uniformly sampling a vertex of a transportation polytope with m sources and n destinations, where m is a constant. We analyse a natural random walk on the edge-vertex graph of the polytope. The analysis makes use of the multicommodity flow technique of Sinclair [20] together with ideas developed by Morris and Sinclair [15, 16] for the knapsack problem, and Cryan et al. [2] for contingency tables, to establish that the random walk approaches the uniform distribution in time nO(m2).
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Fourteenth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
Place of PublicationPhiladelphia, PA, USA
PublisherSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Pages330-339
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)0-89871-538-5
Publication statusPublished - 2003

Publication series

NameSODA '03
PublisherSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

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