Quantitative bounds for convergence rates of continuous time Markov processes

Electronic Journal of Probability

Volumn 1, Issue , 1996, Pages 1-21

  Roberts, Gareth O ^a   Rosenthal, Jeffrey S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coupling; Drift condition; Markov process; Minorization condition; Rates of convergence; Shift coupling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001774580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v1-9     Document Type: Article

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