Mixing time and cutoff for a random walk on the ring of integers mod $n$
Michael Bate, Stephen B. Connor · Bernoulli · 2017
We analyse a random walk on the ring of integers mod $n$, which at each time point can make an additive ‘step’ or a multiplicative ‘jump’. When the probability of making a jump tends to zero as an appropriate power of $n$, we prove the existence of a total variation pre-cutoff for this walk. In addition, we show that the process obtained by subsampling our walk at jump times exhibits a true cutoff, with mixing time dependent on whether the step distribution has zero mean.