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A Transience Criterion for Uniformly Bounded Markov Chains with Asymptotically Zero Mean Drift

Probability 2025-10-07 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we give an overview of mean drift conditions for the state-space classification of discrete-time Markov Chains and we present a new transience criterion for uniformly bounded Markov Chains with asymptotically zero drift. The criterion does not need a condition on the second-moment drifts and can be applied to certain chains for which other criteria fail.

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@article{arxiv.2510.03937,
  title  = {A Transience Criterion for Uniformly Bounded Markov Chains with Asymptotically Zero Mean Drift},
  author = {Dan Andrei Tudor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.03937},
  year   = {2025}
}

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10 pages, 2 figures

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