On the Stochastic and Topological Structure of Markov Chains

DOI10.1112/blms/14.1.16zbMath0481.28015MaRDI QIDQ3937605

Selim Tuncel, William Parry

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1112/blms/14.1.16

zbMATH Keywords

zeta function; subshifts of finite type; block isomorphism; classification of Markov chains up to block isomorphism; flow on Markov probabilities; non-negative integral combinations of exponential functions; shift equivalence of stochastic matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60G20: Generalized stochastic processes

60J27: Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces

28C10: Set functions and measures on topological groups or semigroups, Haar measures, invariant measures

28D10: One-parameter continuous families of measure-preserving transformations

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