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Stationary distributions for piecewise-deterministic Markov processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

O. L. V. Costa
O. L. V. Costa*
Affiliation:
Escola Politécnica da USP
*
∗ Postal addres: Departamento de Engenharia de Eletricidade, Escola Politécnica da USP, 05508 São Paulo, Brazil.
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Abstract

In this paper we show that the problem of existence and uniqueness of stationary distributions for piecewise-deterministic Markov processes (PDPs) is equivalent to the same problem for the associated Markov chain, so long as some mild conditions on the parameters of the PDP are satisfied. Our main result is the construction of an invertible mapping from the set of stationary distributions for the PDP to the set of stationary distributions for the Markov chain. Some sufficient conditions for existence are presented and an application to capacity expansion is given.

Keywords

EMBEDDED MARKOV CHAINEQUIVALENCE RESULTSCONDITIONS FOR EXISTENCE

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Research Papers
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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , March 1990 , pp. 60 - 73
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1990 

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Footnotes

Research carried out while the author held an SERC Post-Doctoral Research Assistantship in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Imperial College, London.

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