-% % Let us first recall the \emph{Total Variation} distance $\tv{\pi-\mu}$,
-% % which is defined for two distributions $\pi$ and $\mu$ on the same set
-% % $\Bool^n$ by:
-% % $$\tv{\pi-\mu}=\max_{A\subset \Bool^n} |\pi(A)-\mu(A)|.$$
-% % It is known that
-% % $$\tv{\pi-\mu}=\frac{1}{2}\sum_{x\in\Bool^n}|\pi(x)-\mu(x)|.$$
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-% % Let then $M(x,\cdot)$ be the
-% % distribution induced by the $x$-th row of $M$. If the Markov chain
-% % induced by
-% % $M$ has a stationary distribution $\pi$, then we define
-% % $$d(t)=\max_{x\in\Bool^n}\tv{M^t(x,\cdot)-\pi}.$$
-% Intuitively $d(t)$ is the largest deviation between
-% the distribution $\pi$ and $M^t(x,\cdot)$, which
-% is the result of iterating $t$ times the function.
-% Finally, let $\varepsilon$ be a positive number, the \emph{mixing time}
-% with respect to $\varepsilon$ is given by
-% $$t_{\rm mix}(\varepsilon)=\min\{t \mid d(t)\leq \varepsilon\}.$$
-% It defines the smallest iteration number
-% that is sufficient to obtain a deviation lesser than $\varepsilon$.
-% Notice that the upper and lower bounds of mixing times cannot
-% directly be computed with eigenvalues formulae as expressed
-% in~\cite[Chap. 12]{LevinPeresWilmer2006}. The authors of this latter work
-% only consider reversible Markov matrices whereas we do no restrict our
-% matrices to such a form.