Abstract
The total-variation cutoff phenomenon has been conjectured to hold for simple random walk on all transitive expanders. However, very little is actually known regarding this conjecture, and cutoff on sparse graphs in general. In this paper we establish total-variation cutoff for simple random walk on Ramanujan complexes of type Azd (d 1). As a result, we obtain explicit generators for the finite classical groups PGLn.Fq/ for which the associated Cayley graphs exhibit total-variation cutoff.
Original language | American English |
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Pages (from-to) | 431-456 |
Number of pages | 26 |
Journal | Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici |
Volume | 97 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgements. The authors are grateful to Ori Gurel-Gurevich for his help with proving Proposition 4.2. They also thank Eyal Lubetzky, Alex Lubotzky and Nati Linial for helpful discussions and encouragement. M.C. was supported by ERC grant 339096 of Nati Linial and by ERC, BSF and NSF grants of Alex Lubotzky. O.P. was supported by ISF grant 2990/21.
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Keywords
- Bruhat–Tits buildings
- Cutoff
- Ramanujan complexes
- expanders
- random walks