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On exponential ergodicity and spectral structure for birth-death processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Herman Callaert
Affiliation:
University of Louvain
Julian Keilson
Affiliation:
University of Rochester

Abstract

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Type
Second conference on stochastic processes and applications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1973 

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