Dobrushin conditions for systematic scan with block dynamics

Details Dobrushin conditions for systematic scan with block dynamics Dobrushin conditions for systematic scan with block dynamics

2007-03-15

arxiv.org/abs/math/0703461v2

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36 pages, 14 figures Extended abstract to appear in MFCS2007

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We study the mixing time of systematic scan Markov chains on finite spin systems. It is known that, in a single site setting, the mixing time of systematic scan can be bounded in terms of the influences sites have on each other. We generalise this technique for bounding the mixing time of systematic scan to block dynamics, a setting in which a (constant size) set of sites are updated simultaneously. In particular we consider the parameter alpha, corresponding to the maximum influence on any site, and show that if alpha<1 then the corresponding systematic scan Markov chain mixes rapidly. As applications of this method we prove O(log n) mixing of systematic scan (for any scan order) for heat-bath updates of edges for proper q-colourings of a general graph with maximum vertex-degree Delta when q>=2Delta. We also apply the method to improve the number of colours required in order to obtain mixing in O(log n) scans for systematic scan for heat-bath updates on trees, using some suitable block updates.

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