Coupling, convergence rates of Markov processes and weak Poincaré inequalities

Science in China, Series A: Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 975-983

  Wang, Fengyu ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coupling; Harmonic function; Markov process; Tail field; Weak Poincar inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347056958     PISSN: 10069283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02879980     Document Type: Article

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