Efficient Markovian couplings: Examples and counterexamples

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 362-409

  Burdzy, Krzysztof ^a   Kendall, Wilfrid S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chen optimal coupling; Co adapted coupling; Coupling exponent; Diffusion; Efficient coupling; Efficient coupling heuristic; Exact simulation; Markov chain; Mirror coupling; Monotonicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034398147     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1019487348     Document Type: Article

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