Center for Algorithms and Theory of Computation

CS 269S, Spring 2021: Theory Seminar


April 30, 2021, 1:00 – 1:50:

Improved Mixing Time for the Convex Point Set Triangulation Flip Walk

Daniel Frishberg

We improve on the rapid mixing result shown by McShine and Tetali in 1997 for the random walk on the triangulations of a convex point set. We develop a divide-and-conquer approach to prove our result, based on the well-known multicommodity flow technique.

(Joint work with David Eppstein)