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math.PR2026

Hitting-time mixing for the star transposition shuffle

Vanshika Jain, Evita Nestoridi

We prove a hitting-time analogue of cutoff for the star transposition shuffle on the symmetric group S_n. Let tau be the first time at which every non-top card has been selected. W…

math.PR2026

Limit Profiles for Separation Distance

Peter E. Francis, Evita Nestoridi

This paper studies limit profiles for the separation distance. A limit profile records the limiting shape of the distance to stationarity inside the cutoff window, at times of the…

math.PR2025

Continuity for Limit Profiles of Reversible Markov Chains

Evita Nestoridi

We prove that the limit profile of a sequence of reversible Markov chains exhibiting total variation cutoff is a continuous function, under a computable condition involving the spe…

math.PR2024

Cutoff for the Biased Random Transposition Shuffle

Evita Nestoridi, Alan Yan

In this paper, we study the biased random transposition shuffle, a natural generalization of the classical random transposition shuffle studied by Diaconis and Shahshahani. We diag…

math.PR2023

Permutations from Random Walk

Peter E. Francis, Evita Nestoridi, Peter Winkler

Xavier and Yushi run a "random race" as follows. An atomless probability distribution on the real line is chosen. The runners begin at zero. At time Xavier draws $\mathbf{X…

math.PR2023★ 8 cited

Approximating the stationary distribution of the ASEP with open boundaries

Evita Nestoridi, Dominik Schmid

We investigate the stationary distribution of asymmetric and weakly asymmetric simple exclusion processes with open boundaries. We project the stationary distribution onto a subint…

math.PR2023★ 1 cited

The shuffle block dynamics

Evita Nestoridi, Amanda Priestley, Dominik Schmid

We introduce and analyze the shuffle on cards, a natural generalization of the celebrated random adjacent transposition shuffle. In the shuffle, we choose uniformly…

math.PR2022★ 2 cited

Limit Profile for Projections of Random Walks on Groups

Evita Nestoridi, Sam Olesker-Taylor

Establishing cutoff, an abrupt transition from "not mixed" to "well mixed", is a classical topic in the theory of mixing times for Markov chains. Interest has grown recently in det…

math.PR2021

Mixing times of one-sided -transposition shuffles

Evita Nestoridi, Kenny Peng, Bryan Wong

We study mixing times of the one-sided -transposition shuffle. We prove that this shuffle mixes relatively slowly, even for big. Using the recent ``lifting eigenvectors'' te…

math.PR2021

The Limit Profile of Star Transpositions

Evita Nestoridi

We prove that the limit profile of star transpositions at time is equal to . We prove this by developing…

math.PR2021★ 1 cited

Bounded cutoff window for the non-backtracking random walk on Ramanujan Graphs

Evita Nestoridi, Peter Sarnak

We prove that the non-backtracking random walk on Ramanujan graphs with large girth exhibits the fastest possible cutoff with a bounded window.

math.PR2020

Cutoff on trees is rare

Nina Gantert, Evita Nestoridi, Dominik Schmid

We study the simple random walk on trees and give estimates on the mixing and relaxation time. Relying on a recent characterization by Basu, Hermon and Peres, we give geometric cri…

math.PR2020

The random walk on upper triangular matrices over

Evita Nestoridi, Allan Sly

We study a natural random walk on the upper triangular matrices, with entries in , generated by steps which add or subtract a uniformly random…

math.PR2020★ 15 cited

Limit Profiles for Reversible Markov Chains

Evita Nestoridi, Sam Olesker-Taylor

In a recent breakthrough, Teyssier [Tey20] introduced a new method for approximating the distance from equilibrium of a random walk on a group. He used it to study the limit profil…

math.PR2020★ 1 cited

Mixing times for the simple exclusion process with open boundaries

Nina Gantert, Evita Nestoridi, Dominik Schmid

We study mixing times of the symmetric and asymmetric simple exclusion process on the segment where particles are allowed to enter and exit at the endpoints. We consider different…

math.PR2019★ 1 cited

On the spectrum of random walks on complete finite -ary trees

Evita Nestoridi, Oanh Nguyen

In the present paper, we determine the full spectrum of the simple random walk on finite, complete -ary trees. We also find an eigenbasis for the transition matrix. As an applic…

math.PR2018

On the mixing time of the Diaconis--Gangolli random walk on contingency tables over

Evita Nestoridi, Oanh Nguyen

The Diaconis--Gangolli random walk is an algorithm that generates an almost uniform random graph with prescribed degrees. In this paper, we study the mixing time of the Diaconis--G…

math.PR2018

Cutoff for the cyclic adjacent transposition shuffle

Danny Nam, Evita Nestoridi

We study the cyclic adjacent transposition (CAT) shuffle of cards, which is a systematic scan version of the random adjacent transposition (AT) card shuffle. In this paper, we…

math.PR2018

Cutoff for the Bernoulli-Laplace urn model with swaps

Alexandros Eskenazis, Evita Nestoridi

We study the mixing time of the Bernoulli--Laplace urn model, where . Consider two urns, each containing balls, so that when combined they have pr…

math.PR2017

Optimal strong stationary times for random walks on the chambers of a hyperplane arrangement

Evita Nestoridi

This paper studies Markov chains on the chambers of real hyperplane arrangements, a model that generalizes famous examples, such as the Tsetlin library and riffle shuffles. We disc…

math.PR2017

Cutoff for random to random card shuffle

Megan Bernstein, Evita Nestoridi

In this paper, we use the eigenvalues of the random to random card shuffle to prove a sharp upper bound for the total variation mixing time. Combined with the lower bound due to Su…

math.PR2016

Super-character theory and comparison arguments for a random walk on the upper triangular matrices

Evita Nestoridi

Consider the random walk on the upper triangular matrices with ones on the diagonal and elements over where we pick a row at random and either add it or…

math.PR2016

Shuffling large decks of cards and the Bernoulli-Laplace urn model

Evita Nestoridi, Graham White

In card games, in casino games with multiple decks of cards and in cryptography, one is sometimes faced with the following problem: how can a human (as opposed to a computer) shuff…

math.PR2016

Random walks on hyperplane arrangements and stopping times

Evita Nestoridi

Consider a real hyperplane arrangement and let denote the occurring chambers. Bidigare, Hanlon and Rockmore introduced a Markov chain on which is a gene…