{ "id": "1403.4895", "version": "v1", "published": "2014-03-19T17:50:51.000Z", "updated": "2014-03-19T17:50:51.000Z", "title": "On Mixing Properties of Reversible Markov Chains", "authors": [ "Richard C. Bradley" ], "comment": "17 pages, no figures", "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "It is well known that for a strictly stationary, reversible, Harris recurrent Markov chain, the $\\rho$-mixing condition is equivalent to geometric ergodicity and to a \"spectral gap\" condition. In this note, it will be shown with an example that for that class of Markov chains, the \"interlaced\" variant of the $\\rho$-mixing condition fails to be equivalent to those conditions.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-03-19T17:50:51.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "60G10", "60J05", "60J10" ], "keywords": [ "reversible markov chains", "mixing properties", "harris recurrent markov chain", "geometric ergodicity", "spectral gap" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 17, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2014arXiv1403.4895B" } } }