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Pathwise recurrence orders and simulated annealing

Part of: Markov processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Vivek S. Borkar
Vivek S. Borkar*
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
*
∗Postal address: Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India.
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Abstract

The Connors–Kumar notion of recurrence orders for state and state transitions of time-inhomogeneous Markov chains is redefined ‘pathwise' and applied to the sample path analysis of the simulated annealing algorithm.

Keywords

ORDER BALANCE EQUATIONTIME-INHOMOGENEOUS MARKOV CHAINSCESARO CONVERGENCE

MSC classification

Secondary: 60J10: Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) 60J20: Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.)
Type
Short Communications
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , June 1992 , pp. 472 - 476
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1992 

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References

Breiman, L. (1968) Probability. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass.Google Scholar
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