Mixing Time of Markov chain of the Knapsack Problem
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To find the number of assignments of zeros and ones satisfying a specific Knapsack Problem is $\#P$ hard, so only approximations are envisageable. A Markov chain allowing uniform sampling of all possible solutions is given by Luby, Randall and Sinclair. In 2005, Morris and Sinclair, by using a flow argument, have shown that the mixing time of this Markov chain is $\mathcal{O}(n^{9/2+\epsilon})$, for any $\epsilon > 0$. By using a canonical path argument on the distributive lattice structure of the set of solutions, we obtain an improved bound, the mixing time is given as $\tau_{_{x}}(\epsilon) \leq n^{3} \ln (16 \epsilon^{-1})$.
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