A variation of strong stationary times for random walks with partial symmetries
Abstract
We introduce a variation of strong stationary times for random walks on the symmetric group. Rather than proceed in the usual fashion of accumulating larger and larger blocks of cards which may be in any order, we wait for pairs of cards to `interact', and bound the mixing time by the time taken for enough interactions to occur.
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