{"paper":{"title":"Rapid Mixing of Geodesic Walks on Manifolds with Positive Curvature","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cs.DS","math.DG","stat.CO"],"primary_cat":"math.PR","authors_text":"Aaron Smith, Oren Mangoubi","submitted_at":"2016-09-09T19:34:15Z","abstract_excerpt":"We introduce a Markov chain for sampling from the uniform distribution on a Riemannian manifold $\\mathcal{M}$, which we call the $\\textit{geodesic walk}$. We prove that the mixing time of this walk on any manifold with positive sectional curvature $C_{x}(u,v)$ bounded both above and below by $0 < \\mathfrak{m}_{2} \\leq C_{x}(u,v) \\leq \\mathfrak{M}_2 < \\infty$ is $\\mathcal{O}^*\\left(\\frac{\\mathfrak{M}_2}{\\mathfrak{m}_2}\\right)$. In particular, this bound on the mixing time does not depend explicitly on the dimension of the manifold. In the special case that $\\mathcal{M}$ is the boundary of a con"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1609.02901","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}