{"title":"Remarks on the recurrence and transience of non-backtracking random walks","authors":"Paul Jung, Greg Markowsky","doi":"10.4310/joc.2020.v11.n3.a7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A short proof of the equivalence of the recurrence of non-backtracking random walk and that of simple random walk on regular infinite graphs is given. It is then shown how this proof can be extended in certain cases where the graph in question is not regular.","PeriodicalId":44683,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Combinatorics","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Combinatorics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4310/joc.2020.v11.n3.a7","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS, APPLIED","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A short proof of the equivalence of the recurrence of non-backtracking random walk and that of simple random walk on regular infinite graphs is given. It is then shown how this proof can be extended in certain cases where the graph in question is not regular.