Coupling, spectral gap and related topics ( I )

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 1321-1327

  Chen, Mufa ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Couplings; Diffusions; Manifold; Markov chains; Spectral gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000852145     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02882858     Document Type: Review

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