WHY IS KEMENY'S CONSTANT A CONSTANT?

Bini, D; Hunter, JJ; Latouche, G; Meini, B; Taylor, P

Bini, D (reprint author), Univ Pisa, Dipartimento Matemat, I-56127 Pisa, Italy.

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PROBABILITY, 2018; 55 (4): 1025

Abstract

In their 1960 book on finite Markov chains, Kemeny and Snell established that a certain sum is invariant. The value of this sum has become known as Ke......

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