@article{ECP1381,
author = {Ben Morris},
title = {Spectral gap for the interchange process in a box},
journal = {Electron. Commun. Probab.},
fjournal = {Electronic Communications in Probability},
volume = {13},
year = {2008},
keywords = {spectral gap, interchange process},
abstract = {We show that the spectral gap for the interchange process (and the symmetric exclusion process) in a $d$-dimensional box of side length $L$ is asymptotic to $\pi^2/L^2$. This gives more evidence in favor of Aldous's conjecture that in any graph the spectral gap for the interchange process is the same as the spectral gap for a corresponding continuous-time random walk. Our proof uses a technique that is similar to that used by Handjani and Jungreis, who proved that Aldous's conjecture holds when the graph is a tree.},
pages = {no. 31, 311-318},
issn = {1083-589X},
doi = {10.1214/ECP.v13-1381},
url = {http://ecp.ejpecp.org/article/view/1381}}