Convergence of Markov chains in information divergence

DOI10.1007/s10959-007-0133-7zbMath1169.60016MaRDI QIDQ1014048

Peter Harremoës, Klaus Kähler Holst

Publication date: 24 April 2009

Published in: Journal of Theoretical Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10959-007-0133-7

zbMATH Keywords

Markov chain; ergodic theorems; information divergence; reversible Markov chain; decreasing information; increasing information

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60F15: Strong limit theorems

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

94A15: Information theory (general)

60B11: Probability theory on linear topological spaces

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