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Discrete Applied Mathematics
Volume 73, Issue 1, 21 February 1997, Pages 69-79
 
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Random walks and electrical resistances in products of graphs

Béla Bollobásb, a and Graham Brightwellc, Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author

a Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, 16, Mill Lane, Cambridge, UK b Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA c Department of Mathematics, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, UK

Received 3 May 1995; 
revised 10 November 1995. 
Available online 8 December 1999.

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Abstract

We study random walks and electrical resistances between pairs of vertices in products of graphs. Among the results we prove are the following. (1) In a graph G × P, where P is a path with endvertices x and y, and G is any graph, with vertices a and b, the resistance between vertices (a, x) and (b, v) is maximised at v = y. (2) In a graph G × Kn, for vertices x and y of the complete graph Kn and a, b of the graph G, the probability that a random walk, starting from (a, x), reaches (b, x) before (b, y) is at least 1/2.

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Discrete Applied Mathematics
Volume 73, Issue 1, 21 February 1997, Pages 69-79
 
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