Riffle shuffles of a deck with repeated cards

We study the Gilbert-Shannon-Reeds model for riffle shuffles and ask 'How many times must a deck of cards be shuffled for the deck to be in close to random order?'. In 1992, Bayer and Diaconis gave a solution which gives exact and asymptotic results for all decks of practical interest, e.g...

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Main Authors: Sami Assaf, Persi Diaconis, K. Soundararajan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science 2009-01-01
Series:Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
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Online Access:https://dmtcs.episciences.org/2733/pdf