Título: Moments of recurrence times for Markov chains
Autores: Aurzada, Frank; TU Berlin
Döring, Hanna; TU Berlin
Ortgiese, Marcel; TU Berlin
Scheutzow, Michael; TU Berlin
Fecha: 2011-01-01
Publicador: Electronic communications in probability
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Tipo: Peer-reviewed Article

Tema: Discrete time Markov chain, recurrence time, generalized moment
60J10
Descripción: We consider moments of the return times (or first hitting times) in an irreducible discrete time discrete space Markov chain. It is classical that the finiteness of the first moment of a return time of one state implies the finiteness of the first moment of the first return time of any other state. We extend this statement to moments with respect to a function $f$, where $f$ satisfies a certain, best possible condition. This generalizes results of K.L. Chung (1954) who considered the functions $f(n)=n^p$ and wondered "[...] what property of the power $n^p$ lies behind this theorem [...]" (see Chung (1967), p. 70). We exhibit that exactly the functions that do not increase exponentially - neither globally nor locally - fulfill the above statement.
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