{ "id": "1708.04908", "version": "v1", "published": "2017-08-16T14:30:55.000Z", "updated": "2017-08-16T14:30:55.000Z", "title": "The covertime of a biased random walk on $G_{n,p}$", "authors": [ "Colin Cooper", "Alan Frieze", "Samantha Petti" ], "categories": [ "math.CO", "cs.DS", "math.PR" ], "abstract": "We analyze the covertime of a biased random walk on the random graph $G_{n,p}$. The walk is biased towards visiting vertices of low degree and this makes the covertime less than in the unbiased case", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2017-08-16T14:30:55.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "biased random walk", "low degree", "random graph", "visiting vertices" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }