On times to quasi-stationarity for birth and death processes

DOI10.1007/s10959-009-0234-6zbMath1186.60086OpenAlexW2004923261MaRDI QIDQ842403

Laurent Miclo, Persi Diaconis

Publication date: 25 September 2009

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10959-009-0234-6

zbMATH Keywords

birth and death processesDirichlet eigenvaluesabsorption timeslocal equilibriafastest strong stationary timesstrong dual processesstrong quasi-stationary timessums of independent exponential variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27) Transition functions, generators and resolvents (60J35)

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