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Cover Time of Random Walk on General Graphs

Posed by Peter Winkler, David Zuckerman (1996)

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[1]

Cover times, blanket times, and majorizing measures

Jian Ding, James R. Lee, Yuval Peres (2012)

Annals of Mathematics

📍 Section 1 (Introduction), Conjecture 1.1 (“The blanket time,” attributed to Winkler–Zuckerman 1996), p. 1411 (related open algorithmic question: Question 1.2, p. 1411).

[2]

Multiple cover time

Peter Winkler, David Zuckerman (1996)

Random Structures & Algorithms

📍 Section 4 (Blanket time), Conjecture 4.1 (blanket time is Θ(cover time) for all finite connected graphs), p. 409.

[3]

Cover times for Brownian motion and random walks in two dimensions

Amir Dembo, Yuval Peres, Jay Rosen, Ofer Zeitouni (2004)

Annals of Mathematics

📍 Section 1 (Introduction), Theorem 1.1 (precise asymptotics for planar cover time), p. 434.

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