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Cutoff for lamplighter chains on fractals. (English) Zbl 1410.60070
Summary: We show that the total-variation mixing time of the lamplighter random walk on fractal graphs exhibit sharp cutoff when the underlying graph is transient (namely of spectral dimension greater than two). In contrast, we show that such cutoff can not occur for strongly recurrent underlying graphs (i.e. of spectral dimension less than two).

##### MSC:
 60J10 Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) 60J35 Transition functions, generators and resolvents 28A80 Fractals 35K08 Heat kernel
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