Ergodicity of a Special Class of Markov Chains
摘要
The paper focuses on the ergodicity of a ϕ-irreducible Markov chain {Xn, n ≥ 0} that is generated iteratively through the expression Xn+1 = f(Xn) + ϵn+1. Here, {ϵn, n ≥ 1} is a sequence of independent identically distributed centered random variables, f(·) is an ℝ-valued continuous function, and X0 is arbitrary but independent of {ϵn, n ≥ 1}. Our main contribution is to provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the ergodicity of this special class of Markov chains. We also present a generalized approach for f(·) in the end.