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Identifying Coefficients in the Spectral Representation for First Passage Time Distributions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Mark Brown  and
Yi-Shi Shao
Mark Brown
Affiliation:
The City College City University of New York New York, New York
Yi-Shi Shao
Affiliation:
The City College City University of New York New York, New York
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Abstract

The spectral approach to first passage time distributions for Markov processes requires knowledge of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the infinitesimal generator matrix. We demonstrate that in many cases knowledge of the eigenvalues alone is sufficient to compute the first passage time distribution.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1987 , pp. 69 - 74
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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