We overcome an obstacle of most techniques for analysing the mixing time of the Glauber dynamics, that they are stated in terms of the maximal degree and are therefore insufficient for Erdos Renyi random graphs where the maximum degree grows as order (log n)/(log log n). We show that for most natural models defined on G(n,d/n) if the "temperature" is high enough (as a function of d only) then the mixing time of Glauber dynamics is polynomial. This proves in particular a conjecture of Dyer et.al. proving rapid mixing of random colourings on G(n,d/n) with a constant number of colours.
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