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The analysis of classical consensus algorithms relies on contraction properties of adjoints of Markov operators, with respect to Hilbert's projective metric or to a related family of seminorms (Hopf's oscillation or Hilbert's seminorm). We…
The notion of a successful coupling of Markov processes, based on the idea that both components of the coupled system ``intersect'' in finite time with probability one, is extended to cover situations when the coupling is unnecessarily…
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The method of 'coupling from the past' permits exact sampling from the invariant distribution of a Markov chain on a finite state space. The coupling is successful whenever the stochastic dynamics are such that there is coalescence of all…
The objective of this paper is to characterize the structure of the set $\Theta$ for a continuous ergodic upper probability $\mathbb{V}=\sup_{P\in\Theta}P$ (Theorem \ref {main result}): . $\Theta$ contains a finite number of ergodic…
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