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Located the near-uniform mixing transition using symmetric-group Fourier analysis.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact two-author 1981 paper, with its convention for random transpositions and distance to uniformity. It does not absorb other shuffles, later cutoff theory, all Markov-chain mixing bounds or algorithmic random-permutation generation.
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The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact two-author 1981 paper, with its convention for random transpositions and distance to uniformity. It does not absorb other shuffles, later cutoff theory, all Markov-chain mixing bounds or algorithmic random-permutation generation.
Contributors
- Persi Diaconis · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Mehrdad Shahshahani · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
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