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Transience and recurrence of an interesting Markov chain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Gérard Letac*
Affiliation:
University of Clermont, France
*
*Now at Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse.

Abstract

This note studies the natural extension to the countable case of a chain considered by Hendricks (1972) and gives necessary and sufficient conditions for transience, null recurrence and positive recurrence.

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Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1974 

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References

Hendricks, W. J. (1972) The stationary distribution of an interesting Markov chain. J. Appl. Prob. 9, 231233.Google Scholar