Spectrum of lazy random walk on the hypercube
ID: spectrum-of-lazy-random-walk-on-the-hypercube
For random walk on that chooses a coordinate uniformly and flips it with probability , the Walsh characters form an orthonormal eigenbasis under the uniform distribution on a finite set. Flipping a coordinate in negates , so . Hence has multiplicity , and the ordinary and absolute spectral gaps both equal .
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