Markov property
for a real-valued stochastic process ,
2020 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 60Jxx [MSN][ZBL]
The property that for any set of times from
and any Borel set
,
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with probability 1, that is, the conditional probability distribution of given
coincides (almost certainly) with the conditional distribution of
given
. This can be interpreted as independence of the "future"
and the "past"
given the fixed "present"
. Stochastic processes satisfying the property (*) are called Markov processes (cf. Markov process). The Markov property has (under certain additional assumptions) a stronger version, known as the "strong Markov property" . In discrete time
the strong Markov property, which is always true for (Markov) sequences satisfying (*), means that for each stopping time
(relative to the family of
-algebras
,
), with probability one
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