A survey on the use of Markov chains to randomly sample colorings
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In recent years there has been considerable progress on the analysis of Markov chains for generating a random coloring of an input graph. These improvements have come in conjunction with refinements of the coupling technique, which is a classical tool in probability theory. We survey results on generating random colorings, and related technical improvements.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006