On direct convergence and periodicity for transition probabilities of Markov chains in random environments

DOI10.1214/aop/1176990850zbMath0707.60057OpenAlexW2030941806MaRDI QIDQ919712

Robert Cogburn

Publication date: 1990

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1176990850

zbMATH Keywords

stochastic matricesdecomposition into cyclic sub-classesMarkov chain in a random environment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Markov processes (60J99)

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