{
  "id": "2004.11491",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2020-04-23T23:49:25.000Z",
  "updated": "2020-04-23T23:49:25.000Z",
  "title": "Speeding up Markov chains with deterministic jumps",
  "authors": [
    "Sourav Chatterjee",
    "Persi Diaconis"
  ],
  "comment": "20 pages",
  "categories": [
    "math.PR"
  ],
  "abstract": "We show that the convergence of finite state space Markov chains to stationarity can often be considerably speeded up by alternating every step of the chain with a deterministic move. Under fairly general conditions, we show that not only do such schemes exist, they are numerous.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2020-04-23T23:49:25.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "60J10",
      "60J22"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "deterministic jumps",
      "finite state space markov chains",
      "fairly general conditions",
      "deterministic move",
      "stationarity"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 20,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}