How to clean a dirty floor: Probabilistic potential theory and the Dobrushin uniqueness theorem

zbMath1157.60081arXiv0704.3156MaRDI QIDQ3527600

Thierry De La Rue, Alan D. Sokal, Roberto Fernández

Publication date: 29 September 2008

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3156

zbMATH Keywords

balayage; spectral radius; probabilistic potential theory; Dobrushin uniqueness theorem; Nonnegative matrix; cleaning operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60J10: Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces)

15B48: Positive matrices and their generalizations; cones of matrices

60J45: Probabilistic potential theory

82B20: Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics

32C20: Normal analytic spaces

60J99: Markov processes

31C99: Generalizations of potential theory

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