The cyclic behavior of the constrictive Markov operators (Q2862228)

The author considers a quasi-constrictive Markov operator acting on the space of finite signed measures denoted by \(\mathcal{M}_{\Sigma}\), where \(\Sigma\) is a Borel \(\sigma\)-algebra of a Polish space \(S\). In this context, he establishes the ergodic decomposition theorem and gives a Harris cyclic decomposition of the space \(S\) as a finite disjoint union of cycles.NEWLINENEWLINE We recall that the operator \(P\) on \(\mathcal{M}_{\Sigma}\) is Markov if it maps the set of probability measures on itself, it is said to be quasi-constrictive if there exists a weakly compact set \(F \subset \mathcal{M}_{\Sigma}\) and a nonnegative number \(\delta<1\) such that NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\limsup_{n \to +\infty}d(\mu P^n,F) \leq \deltaNEWLINE\]NEWLINE for any probability measure \(\mu\), \(d(\nu,F)=\inf\{||\nu-\rho||,~~\rho \in F\}\), where \(\|\cdot\|\) is the total variation norm on \(\mathcal{M}_{\Sigma}\).