摘要(英) |
In [4] Kemeny consider a simple random walk on a connected graph G with transition probability matrix P and stationary distribution π = (π_1, . . . , π_n). The first key result of [4] is that Kemeny proved the value ∑_(j=1)^n H_(ij)π_j is independent of i, where H_(ij) is the mean hitting time to node j starting from i. This value was later called the Kemeny’s constant in the literature and denoted by K(P). The
second key result of [4] is that Kemeny proved that K(P) can be derived via an n×n matrix matrix (I−P+gβ^T)^(−1) by choosing appropriate vectors g and β. In this thesis, first we give these two results a more condensed proof. We then use them to compute Kemeny’s constants of some special
graphs, including complete graphs, complete bipartite graphs, paths and hypercubes. |
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