Convergence rates in strong ergodicity for Markov processes

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1964-1976

  Mao, Yong Hua ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Convergence rate; Coupling; Markov process; Spectral gap; Strong ergodicity

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; COUPLINGS; DIFFUSION;

CONVERGENCE RATES; ERGODICITY; SPECTRAL GAPS;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 33750606874     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spa.2006.05.008     Document Type: Article

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