Publications [#199151] of Jessica Zuniga

Papers Published

1. L. Saloff-Coste, J. Zuniga, Merging for inhomogeneous finite Markov chains, part II: Nash and log-Sobolev inequalities, Annals of Probability, vol. 39 no. 3 (2011), pp. 1161-1203
   (last updated on 2011/12/12)

   Abstract:
   We study time-inhomogeneous Markov chains with finite state spaces using Nash and logarithmic-Sobolev inequalities, and the notion of c-stability. We develop the basic theory of such functional inequalities in the time-inhomogeneous context and provide illustrating examples.

   Keywords:
   Time-inhomogeneous Markov chains • spectral techniques • Nash inequalities • log-Sobolev inequalities