@InProceedings{galanis_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2015.815, author = {Galanis, Andreas and \v{S}tefankovic, Daniel and Vigoda, Eric}, title = {{Swendsen-Wang Algorithm on the Mean-Field Potts Model}}, booktitle = {Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2015)}, pages = {815--828}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-939897-89-7}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2015}, volume = {40}, editor = {Garg, Naveen and Jansen, Klaus and Rao, Anup and Rolim, Jos\'{e} D. P.}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2015.815}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-53389}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2015.815}, annote = {Keywords: Ferromagnetic Potts model, Swendsen-Wang dynamics, mixing time, mean-field analysis, phase transition.} }