Sharp lower bound on the spectral gap of biased adjacent-transposition chains on the symmetric group is established, resolving Fill's conjecture with characterization of minimizers and eigenvalue multiplicity.
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Spectral gap of biased adjacent-transposition chains
Sharp lower bound on the spectral gap of biased adjacent-transposition chains on the symmetric group is established, resolving Fill's conjecture with characterization of minimizers and eigenvalue multiplicity.