General Bernstein-like inequality for additive functionals of Markov chains

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Abstract: Using the renewal approach we prove Bernstein-like inequalities for additive functionals of geometrically ergodic Markov chains, thus obtaining counterparts of inequalities for sums of independent random variables. The coefficient in the sub-Gaussian part of our estimate is the asymptotic variance of the additive functional, i.e. the variance of the limiting Gaussian variable in the Central Limit Theorem for Markov chains. This refines earlier results by R. Adamczak and W. Bednorz, which were obtained under the additional assumption of strong aperiodicity of the chain.


Let \(Y = \left( {{Y_n},n \ge 1} \right)\) be a Markov chain with values in a measurable (countably generated) space. The chain \(Y\) is supposed to be \(\psi \)-irreducible and aperiodic and admitting a unique invariant probability measure. The paper gives consideration to tail inequalities \({P_x}\left( {\left| {\sum_{i = 0}^{n - 1} {f({Y_i})} } \right| > t} \right)\). Using the renewal approach, it establishes Bernstein-like inequalities for additive functionals of geometrically ergodic Markov chains.



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