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of a Markov chain
2020 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 60J10 [MSN][ZBL]
A state such that
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An example of a Markov chain with absorbing state is a branching process.
The introduction of additional absorbing states is a convenient technique that enables one to examine the properties of trajectories of a Markov chain that are associated with hitting some set.
Example. Consider the set of states of a homogeneous Markov chain
with discrete time and transition probabilities
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in which a subset is distinguished and suppose one has to find the probabilities
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where is the moment of first hitting the set
. If one introduces the auxiliary Markov chain
differing from
only in that all states
are absorbing in
, then for
the probabilities
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are monotonically non-decreasing for and
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By virtue of the basic definition of a Markov chain
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The passage to the limit for taking into account (*) gives a system of linear equations for
:
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References
[F] | W. Feller, "An introduction to probability theory and its applications", 1, Wiley (1968) |
Absorbing state. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Absorbing_state&oldid=23710