Gregory F. Lawler, Alan D. Sokal, Bounds on the L² Spectrum for Markov Chains and Markov Processes: A Generalization of Cheeger's Inequality, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 309, No. 2 (Oct., 1988), pp. 557-580
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