Martingales, Harmonic Functions and Poisson–Dirichlet Problems

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Abstract

In this chapter, we introduce several notions of potential theory for Markov chains. Harmonic and superharmonic functions on a set A are defined in Section 4.1, and Theorem 4.1.3 establishes links between these functions and the return (or hitting) times to the set A. In Section 4.2, we introduce the potential kernel and prove the maximum principle, Theorem 4.2.2, which will be very important in the study of recurrence and transience throughout Part II.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpringer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages75-96
Number of pages22
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2018

Publication series

NameSpringer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering
ISSN (Print)1431-8598
ISSN (Electronic)2197-1773

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