The cutoff phenomenon for ergodic Markov processes

Electronic Journal of Probability

Volumn 13, Issue , 2008, Pages 26-78

  Chen, Guan Yu ^a   Saloff Coste, Laurent ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cutoff phenomenon; Ergodic Markov semigroups

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749154689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v13-474     Document Type: Article

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