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On non-dissipative Markov chains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. G. Mauldon
J. G. Mauldon
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Corpus Christi CollegeOxford
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Consider a Markov chain with an enumerable infinity of states, labelled 0, 1, 2, …, whose one-step transition probabilities pij are independent of time. Then

I write

and, departing slightly from the usual convention,

Then it is known ((1), pp. 324–34, or (6)) that the limits πij always exist, and that

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 53 , Issue 4 , October 1957 , pp. 825 - 835
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1957

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