On transition matrices of Markov chains corresponding to Hamiltonian cycles

Title: On transition matrices of Markov chains corresponding to Hamiltonian cycles
Creator: Avrachenkov, Konstantin; Eshragh, Ali; Filar, Jerzy A.
Relation: ARC.DP0666632
Relation: Annals of Operations Research Vol. 243, Issue 1-2, p. 19-35
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-014-1642-2
Publisher: Springer
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2016
Description: In this paper, we present some algebraic properties of a particular class of probability transition matrices, namely, Hamiltonian transition matrices. Each matrix P in this class corresponds to a Hamiltonian cycle in a given graph G on n nodes and to an irreducible, periodic, Markov chain. We show that a number of important matrices traditionally associated with Markov chains, namely, the stationary, fundamental, deviation and the hitting time matrix all have elegant expansions in the first n- 1 powers of P, whose coefficients can be explicitly derived. We also consider the resolvent-like matrices associated with any given Hamiltonian cycle and its reverse cycle and prove an identity about the product of these matrices. As an illustration of these analytical results, we exploit them to develop a new heuristic algorithm to determine a non-Hamiltonicity of a given graph.
Subject: Markov chains; Hamiltonian cycles; transition matrices
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1327374
Identifier: uon:25648
Identifier: ISSN:0254-5330
Language: eng
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