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On -convergence of Markov chains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. J. Aldous
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

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Let I be a countable set, with discrete topology, and let X = (Xn), Y = (Yn) be stationary stochastic processes taking values in I. To a probabilist, the natural topology on processes (strictly speaking, on distributions of processes) is weak convergence:

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1981

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