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Graph fibrations, graph isomorphism, and PageRank

Paolo Boldi, Violetta Lonati, Massimo Santini, Sebastiano Vigna (2006)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications

PageRank is a ranking method that assigns scores to web pages using the limit distribution of a random walk on the web graph. A fibration of graphs is a morphism that is a local isomorphism of in-neighbourhoods, much in the same way a covering projection is a local isomorphism of neighbourhoods. We show that a deep connection relates fibrations and Markov chains with restart, a particular kind of Markov chains that include the PageRank one as a special case. This fact provides constraints on the...

Green functions for killed random walks in the Weyl chamber of Sp(4)

Kilian Raschel (2011)

Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques

We consider a family of random walks killed at the boundary of the Weyl chamber of the dual of Sp(4), which in addition satisfies the following property: for any n ≥ 3, there is in this family a walk associated with a reflection group of order 2n. Moreover, the case n = 4 corresponds to a process which appears naturally by studying quantum random walks on the dual of Sp(4). For all the processes belonging to this family, we find the exact asymptotic of the Green functions along all infinite paths...

Green functions on self-similar graphs and bounds for the spectrum of the laplacian

Bernhard Krön (2002)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

Combining the study of the simple random walk on graphs, generating functions (especially Green functions), complex dynamics and general complex analysis we introduce a new method for spectral analysis on self-similar graphs.First, for a rather general, axiomatically defined class of self-similar graphs a graph theoretic analogue to the Banach fixed point theorem is proved. The subsequent results hold for a subclass consisting of “symmetrically” self-similar graphs which however is still more general then...

Groupes aléatoires

Étienne Ghys (2002/2003)

Séminaire Bourbaki

Quelles sont les propriétés d’un groupe de présentation finie “tiré au hasard” ? La réponse à cette question dépend bien entendu de la méthode choisie pour le tirage au sort. On peut par exemple fixer n générateurs et choisir p relations aléatoirement parmi les mots de longueur L , puis faire tendre L vers l’infini. On peut aussi choisir un graphe fini, étiqueter aléatoirement ses arêtes par des générateurs, et considérer le groupe engendré par ces générateurs, soumis aux relations lues sur les cycles...

Growth rates and average optimality in risk-sensitive Markov decision chains

Karel Sladký (2008)

Kybernetika

In this note we focus attention on characterizations of policies maximizing growth rate of expected utility, along with average of the associated certainty equivalent, in risk-sensitive Markov decision chains with finite state and action spaces. In contrast to the existing literature the problem is handled by methods of stochastic dynamic programming on condition that the transition probabilities are replaced by general nonnegative matrices. Using the block-triangular decomposition of a collection...

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