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On weak lumpability in Markov chains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Gerardo Rubino*
Affiliation:
IRISA
Gerardo Rubino*
Affiliation:
IRISA
*
Postal address for both authors: IRISA Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France.
Postal address for both authors: IRISA Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France.

Abstract

We analyse the conditions under which the aggregated process constructed from an homogeneous Markov chain over a given partition of the state space is also Markov homogeneous. The past work on the subject is revised and new properties are obtained.

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1989 

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