Four Questions on Birkhoff Polytope

Abstract. We ask several questions on the structure of the polytope Pn of doubly stochastic n×n matrices, known as a Birkhoff polytope. We discuss the volume of Pn, the work of the simplex method, and the mixing of random walks on Pn.

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