Preprints

In specified cases, you can get a text file of the original TeX file or a PostScript file.

For certain large files, the approximate size of the file is indicated.

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Preprints are not refereed and are subject to correction, editing, revision, etc. Furthermore preprints may be submitted for publication, and copyright may be transfered in the future with no further notice (or may have been transfered in the case of preprints accepted). The maintainer of these pages reserves the right to remove preprints and has done so for some preprints once they were published.

• A Condition for Distinguishing Sceneries on Non-abelian Groups. Available on arXiv, to appear in Stochastic Processes and their Applications.
• A lower bound for the Chung-Diaconis-Graham random process. Available on arXiv. This has appeared in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.
• Generating random vectors in (Z/pZ)^d via an affine random process, with J. McCollum. Available on arXiv.
• A Survey of Results on Random Random Walks on Finite Groups - a survey has now appeared in Probability Surveys.
• Analysis of the Diaconis-Holmes-Neal Markov Chain Sampler for Log Concave Probabilities (January 15, 2002)
  • DVI file
  • PostScript file
• The Proof of a Conjecture of Simion (preliminary version, August 25, 2000)
  • Note that an updated version with a slightly different title has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Combinatorial Theory - Series A as of April 12, 2001 and appears in the January, 2002, issue.
• Some Specialized Comparison Techniques for Doubly Stochastic Finite Markov Chains (January 16, 2001)
  • Note: Many of the ideas in this preprint appear in my article "A Note on Various Holding Probabilities for Random Lazy Random Walks on Finite Groups" in Statistics and Probability Letters. Thus I've removed the links to this preprint.
• Random Lazy Random Walks on Arbitrary Finite Groups (preliminary version, October 22, 1999)
  • An updated version has appeared in Journal of Theoretical Probability. Thus I have removed links to the preprint version of it.
• The Proof of a Conjecture of Simion for Certain Partitions (An updated version has appeared in Discrete Mathematics, and so I've removed the link to the preprint version.)
• "Rates of Convergence of the Diaconis-Holmes-Neal Markov Chain Sampler" (formerly called "Rates of Convergence for a Non-Reversible Markov Chain Sampler" and "Rates of Convergence for a Directed Version of the Metropolis Algorithm")
  • .dvi file (December 18, 2000) (128K)
  • PostScript file (464K)
• Some Random Processes Related to Affine Random Walks
• A Census of Cusped Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds, with P. Callahan and J. Weeks. (This has appeared in Mathematics of Computation. Go there!)