Title
The cover time of cartesian product graphs
Abstract
Let P = G□H be the cartesian product of graphs G, H. We relate the cover time COV[P] of P to the cover times of its factors. When one of the factors is in some sense larger than the other, its cover time dominates, and can become of the same order as the cover time of the product as a whole. Our main theorem effectively gives conditions for when this holds. The probabilistic technique which we introduce, based on the blanket time, is more general and may be of independent interest, as might some of our lemmas.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-19222-7_37
IWOCA
Keywords
Field
DocType
cover time cov,cartesian product graph,probabilistic technique,independent interest,graphs g,cover time,blanket time,main theorem,cartesian product,random walk,cartesian
Discrete mathematics,Product measure,Combinatorics,Direct product,Cartesian product,Random walk,Cartesian product of graphs,Product (mathematics),Probabilistic logic,Lemma (mathematics),Mathematics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6460
0302-9743
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.45
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohammed Abdullah140.81
Colin Cooper285791.88
Tomasz Radzik3109895.68